Disingenuous to omit his former position

I write in response to the letter penned by former Labour councillor, Preston Brooker, as featured in last week’s (Viewpoint, February 16), whereby he ‘disagreed’ with my previously published letter about the current state of Slough, and Queensmere in particular, which subsequently featured as a front-page news item on Friday, February 16.

Readers may recall that my letter made mention of a ‘plethora of potholes, malfunctioning and broken traffic lights, street furniture, and fading, sometimes nonexistent road markings: just some of the many consequences of local government (Labour) bankrupting the town by £3/4 billion in recent years.’

Indeed, former Labour councillor Brooker stated, ‘I disagree that the state of Slough is due to the previous Labour administration … since May 2023 we have had a coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.’

I suggest it is noteworthy that Preston Brooker forgot to mention that he was a serving councillor in the Labour run council that created the £3/4 billion black hole that the current political regime is desperately seeking to rectify.

I wonder at his apparent amnesia, as Slough declared itself bankrupt under Labour, and currently has need of two government appointed commissioners, such is the mess that Labour created.

Whilst former Labour councillor Preston Brooker has every right to voice his opinion and political leanings in a free press, I suggest it’s disingenuous to omit declaring his former position and involvement in affairs, and at the same time hypocritical to then seek to lay blame at the door of the current coalition, who by his own admission have barely been in the job for nine months.

For the record, I wish to state that I have never been a member of any political party, being merely a taxpayer, who, like so many, is facing a never-ending tax burden due to outright political and fiscal incompetence! GORDON MOFFATT Marish Ward, Langley