Who is Coun Theobald kidding when he claims that £8 billion pounds worth of cuts by a Tory government would not affect local services? (January 15).

His party proposes to scrap Labour's forward looking social programmes for children from deprived backgrounds, which are attempting to undo all the neglect built up over nearly 20 years of Tory rule.

-C Hopper, Montpelier Crescent, Brighton