Your editorial in the paper on May 9 suggests that the Liberal Democrats' electoral success in the Winchester local elections represents an unhealthy stranglehold on power and raises the question of whether one can have too much of a good thing.

If true, surely your argument also applies to the Conservative Party which has a near monopoly of Hampshire county councillors and Hampshire MPs? 

Robert Marcus,
Wonston, 
Sutton Scotney

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