WHEN, if ever, will a Labour-controlled piece of democracy - be it national Government or regional authorities - accept that something is "their own fault"?

Transport, education, etc, etc, you name it and someone else gets the blame - usually the Tories!

Unfortunately for Blackburn with Darwen Council (Beacon of Excellence) the people they are trying to blame for "their failures" in education also happen to be Labour controlled!

How much more convenient it would have been for them if LCC were under Conservative control!

We see their drain cleaners on TV, what we didn't see was the utter filth and squalor which is blighting certain areas of the borough!

No doubt come next year's council awards, Blackburn with Darwen will yet again get three-star status!

Were Tory controlled councils given similar million of pounds in assistance from Westminster, then no doubt, they too would get three-stars.

HARRY ROBINSON, Juniper Court, Woodside Road, Accrington.