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SIR - Literature distributed during local elections is seldom earth shattering, but it was noticeable that the examples distributed by the Liberal Democrats in St Michael's ward this year were particularly negative.

We had the spurious statistics of the 2005 contest issued with monotonous regularity, which omitted any mention of the success of UKIP in splitting the Conservative vote.

We had the regurgitation of the Liberal candidate's defence of the Tower Arts Centre, which was scarcely pertinent to the election campaign, and other assorted criticisms of the Conservative Party in control of the Winchester City Council.

Many of these would have been equally accurately aimed at a Liberal Democrat council had one been in power, since they arose from the impositions of central Government.

We heard little or nothing of any constructive policies that the party might have introduced, had the Liberal Democrats been returned to power.

The final jibe, which was totally untrue, was that "you only see the Conservatives at election time".

Our councillors deal with residents' problems year round, and our candidate started introducing himself to voters as early as last September.

It was only a matter of days before the election was called that we knew the identity of the Liberal Democrat candidate in this ward.

While as a staunch Conservative, I should, perhaps, have been grateful, in fact, I found the whole approach of the Liberal Democrats disappointing and singularly unedifying.

W A C Halliwell, St James Villas, Winchester.

2:21pm Thursday 15th May 2008

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