I am sick of the constant whinging and petty bitching by our elected local councillors in the letters pages.

We, the readers, suffer a constant stream of "The Labour Party did this", "The Tories said that", "The Lib-Dems voted so."

With councillors choosing to indulge in these petty antics in public, it is little wonder that council candidates increasingly fail to earn the votes of the electorate.

As the mainstream parties continue in this way they hold the door open for the more active, and less palatable, parties.

Dr Duncan Campbell,

Albemarle Road,

York.

Updated: 09:46 Saturday, April 12, 2003