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Letter: Lib Dems Support The Star’s Fight to Keep Their Music Licence

Letter: Lib Dems Support The Star’s Fight to Keep Their Music Licence

From Ciaran Doran The Star has housed a music venue for generations and it is no secret that iconic legends like The Stranglers made their mark on British music starting out in the “Back…

Letter: Thankfully, There Is Still Some Independent Thinking At Millmead

From Gordon Bridger hon alderman and former Mayor of Guildford In response to: Borough Council Chooses the ‘Nuclear Option’ Over Committee Appointments Congratulations on an ace piece of reporting of…

Letter: Why Isn’t the Voting Equipment We Paid For Used?

Letter: Why Isn’t the Voting Equipment We Paid For Used?

From Martin Elliott In response to: Borough Council Chooses the ‘Nuclear Option’ Over Committee Appointments I have a minor question on the voting procedure. When the council chamber was refurbished…

Letter: I Watched The Council Meeting With Utter Incredulity

From John Ferns Last night I watched the full Guildford Borough Council meeting with utter incredulity. Item 8 was, “A review of the allocation of seats on committees 2018-19”, a…

Letter: Now Is the Time To Alter The System

From Gordon Bridger hon alderman and former Mayor of Guildford In response to: Opinion: Unnatural Selection Martin Giles is right. Residents are ill-served by a system of councillor selection which…

Letter: Compared With Other Areas, Our Retail Sector Is Doing Well

From Caroline Reeves leader of the opposition at Guildford Borough Council and Lib Dem ward councillor for Friary & St Nicolas In response to: It Is True – The Number of…

Letter: The Real Problem Is First Past The Post

From John Perkins In response to: Opinion: Unnatural Selection The problem with our democracy, as I see it, is not so much party politics as the First Past The Post…

Letter: A Plague On All Your Political Parties

Liz Critchfield I say to our local politicians, “A plague on all your houses!” Bawling political slogans at each other gets us precisely nowhere. No one political party has a…

Letter: Independent Councillors Cannot Change Government Policy

From Richard Mithen In response to: Party Politics Has No Relevance in Local Government As much as I would, of course, admire a well respected independent councillor that works for their…

Letter: Expulsion of Conservative Councillors is Disgraceful

From Gordon Bridger hon alderman and former Mayor of Guildford The recent expulsion of two well established Conservative councillors, Tony Rooth and Bob McShee, because they voted against the extraordinary…