IT seemed rather ironic that after walking through the town and seeing notices saying something like "it's your vote and your voice" that I read remarks by a councillor (Letters, May 20) that seemed to indicate that he was not listening to the electorate's voice.

The voter he mentioned seemed to find enough faults to occupy 20 minutes of his time, but he seemed to just dismiss them as being unimportant. I would have been more impressed if he had told us what they were and offered a rebuttal of them.

I wonder if they included complaints about the poor standard of street cleansing, the blocked gullies, the uneven state and potholes in the footpaths and roads, the piles of rotting rubbish on waste land and back streets, the abominable state of the town's parks and the lack of toilet facilities, causing people to urinate in the back allies.

I appreciate that all of these complaints are trivial and probably only affect 90 per cent of the voters who aren't shouting loud enough to be heard.

L LAWES, Bold Street,

Blackburn.