SIR – Wilsden residents are incensed to learn that our library service is to close and we are to be fobbed off with a mobile library.

I recently spoke with Councillor Paul Flowers (Labour), the Council’s portfolio holder for culture, about the proposed closure, and he replied saying: “It’s your fault! You voted Conservative!”

To say I was taken aback would be an understatement. He intimated that because I had voted for Philip Davis at the last General Election, and the new Tory Government has had to bring in the cuts to public spending due to the massive over- spending of the last Labour Government, it is my fault that our library has to close!

This opens up a debate that the Council cuts are political and not just to reduce spending overall.

I would therefore ask what reserves does the Council hold? I read that many councils across the country have huge reserves amounting to millions of pounds and yet are forcing unnecessary cuts on the general public, or, like Bradford, cutting library services which cost peanuts yet will hit the young and elderly who depend on the service.

Tony Caunt, Birchlands Grove, Wilsden