How representative?

I AM grateful to Keith Rhodes for his exhortation last week that residents disenchanted with the performance of our councillors should join the Bexhill Alliance and seek their own independent representation.

I disagree strongly however with his support of the line, now being peddled with increasing desperation by the council, that expressions of public discontent on various current matters are of no account because they are not representative.

I would remind him that the 30 Conservative councillors who have subserviently followed their leader and collectively caused such discontent were elected by only 30 per cent of the total possible electorate. So how representative are they?

John Lee

Chairman, Bexhill Alliance