As readers join in the general knockabout regarding the allocation of the people's money to various voluntary bodies and study the most detailed account of it I have ever read in The Argus, they would do well to remind themselves that such a specific analysis has never before - in my memory - been published in the paper. Nor has there been such a protracted discussion.

In the days of the Tories, a mere half-page sufficed with little or no subsequent controversy. It is convincing evidence of the Labour Party's determination to open its books for public scrutiny in furtherance of its belief in openness, accountability and transparency. Would that other parties followed suit.

-R G Jenkins, Hove