IT’S ALWAYS entertaining to see the Lib Dems continue to have their cake and eat it.

As members of the coalition Government they impose drastic cuts – 35 per cent on local government in the city since they came to office – and as the opposition on City of York Council they oppose every reduction in service that is forced on the council as a result.

The latest example is former Labour, former Independent and now Lib Dem spokesperson on community services, Lynn Jeffries (Letters, June 14) complaining about reductions to library services.

None of this would be happening if the Lib Dems hadn’t backed a Government so determined to destroy public services in the name of austerity that even the International Monetary Fund is telling them to stop.

As for the “grandiose projects” the Lib Dems continually cite as evidence of overspending, I do find it worrying that councillors who seek to run this authority one day cannot tell the difference between revenue spending on day-to-day services, which has been decimated, and capital spending on buildings and infrastructure (still allowed as long as there is future economic benefit).

Patrick Kelly, East Mount Road, York.