REGARDING your report, 'Inquiry into I quit decision' (LET, August 17), as each day passes the waters around the Blackburn with Darwen Racial Equality Council become more murky.

Should not the councillors involved in this blatant act of cronyism be man enough to face the consequences of their contempt of procedures and not just relinquish committee posts, but go the whole hog and resign from the council completely?

For is this not just another example of why people are fast losing faith in local democracy?

Under such covers, what other dodgy deals are kept from the public? This cannot be the only one, surely.

WALT MEADOWS, Whalley New Road, Blackburn.

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