COUNCILLORS Jarvis, Anderson and Brooks - where were you when the residents of the Wesley Guild area held their second public meeting regarding the developments on the status of Wesley Guild?

Like the previous meeting (of which none of you attended) this meeting was announced and publicised in the local press. The least any of you could have done was to attend. After all you are the elected councillors of this area, are you not?

It would have been fitting if you, Mr Jarvis, attended, because you are a councillor on Wigan MBC's planning committee. Perhaps you could have shed any new light on the plight of Wesley Guild.

It doesn't surprise me that any of you didn't turn up to be quite honest, because it is obvious you don't represent your electorate as efficiently as you would like us to believe.

And please don't ask us to believe it is the fault of this or any Conservative Government that Wesley Guild will have to be sold, because Wigan council has been a Labour controlled council for as long as anyone can remember, and it is they who have plummeted the borough £300 million in debt.

It would be insulting also to ask the electorate to believe that if Tony Blair and his closest socialists get in to Number 10, they will give Labour Wigan MBC a blank cheque to clear the £300 million they are in debt, because "it won't happen". As Gordon Brown said quite clearly at the recent Labour Party Conference.

So councillors , prove that your "New Labour" is so great and is the party representative of all people, because if it is, why does it take a Tory to keep reminding you of your obligations to your electorate?

Prove that you are committed to your "New Labour's" philosophies and re-affirm your credibility by listening to your electorate, and stop once and for all the building plans for Wesley Guild.

David Morris

Hope Carr Candidate

Leigh Conservative Club, Railway Road, Leigh

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