The Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Crawley, Henry Smith, accuses Labour-run Crawley Council of a gross misuse of public money (Argus, September 5). He hasn't seen anything yet!

Perhaps Mr Smith would care to tot up the soaring legal costs in the hot school meals debacle, especially relating to the non-payment of redundancy money to the school dinner ladies.

But who was responsible for this decision to axe hot school meals in the first place? The Conservative-controlled West Sussex County Council.

Now that's what I call big time misuse of public money.

-Richard W. Symonds, Lavington Close, Ifield, Crawley