MADAM - Newer Tory councillors on SDC can be forgiven for not knowing that for many years Labour councillors voted against increases in councillor allowances put forward and pushed through by the Tory majority.

However, those Tory councillors who have been on the council for some years (voting through larger and larger allowances each year) know quite well that Labour has now hugely reduced the overall allowances budget and has never supported high allowances.

I was there voting against Tory increases for many years.

So making such a drama of giving back part of their allowances now - trying to claim some kind of moral high ground based on deceit - is just hypocrisy.

Not a pretty sight...

Hilary Fowles Cam