I WAS interested to see the latest rearranging of the Titanic’s deckchairs, or changes to cabinet as new Labour leader Dafydd Williams likes to call them.

On the Labour side it seems to be merely moving around those that have failed before, rather than inject any new blood.

Although the new Labour leader has even described himself as a close ally of former leader James Alexander, and indeed never publicly disagreed with him, it is to be welcomed that he has offered the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders a voice around the cabinet table.

It is improbable they will be able to do more than give their views, which makes it all the stranger that the Liberal Democrat ‘leader’, after two weeks of indecision, has turned the offer down.

How can they be seen as a credible alternative in York when they dare not even put forward solutions?

Matt Freckelton, Ogleforth, York.