Dear Sir,
Whilst I can understand that Mr Clare might have been a little upset by my letter criticising his somewhat one sided views on who is responsible for the present economic problems facing our country (as well as the rest of the world). He may also feel indignant that I should suggest that he, as a local councillor, should perhaps stick to local issues.
I do believe he might have expected a response such as this. However, can he not understand that he himself might have upset a few readers by the one sided political views he was putting forward in his original letter? Extreme views will inevitably attract a strong response.
If he cannot stand the heat, perhaps he should get out of the kitchen, especially as the heat was generated by Mr Clare himself when he put forward his controversial views in the first place.
As for his stated intent of wishing to “raise the standard and scope of local political debate”, he obviously feels he has failed in that regard. It is no wonder when the views he originally expressed were so full of Party political dogma. Mr Clare states in his most recent letter that I “despise Party politics”. Well, I do not and I did not in fact say that, but I do admit that I utterly despair of Party politics and I repeat what I said then that no single political Party has all the answers to our problems.
Mr Clare goes on to say that he is “all for Aycliffe”. I should jolly well hope he is as, after all, he is one of our local councillors, but does that not imply that he thinks other councillors with a different politcal viewpoint are not “all for Aycliffe”? I sincerely hope not.
Mrs V Crichton