I AM writing with regard to the letter headed "Critical MP who has no constructive ideas" (Letters Page, December 20).

For those readers who don't know who Tony Clay is, he is a Labour member of Bewdley Town Council.

For those readers who don't know where Bewdley Town Council sits on the political map, it sits somewhere between Toytown and Trumpton - grousing is its major success.

Its most spectacular failure was well covered in the Shuttle/Times and News on November 1 with its front page story headed "Town takes UK flood lead" - the gist of which was as follows.

The story was a well-earned compliment to Bewdley Residents' Flood Committee, and the sterling, and now nationally recognised abilities and work of its members - ordinary citizens with a major problem to face.

What surprised me was that your newspaper didn't question why the town council wasn't controlling this major matter.

On Page 2 of that issue, reporting the latest town council meeting, one councillor commented: "It could all happen again", and another said: The town is much better prepared - the Bewdley Residents Flood Committee has done a tremendous amount of work. People are more aware of what they can do themselves".

Well, it was nice to know councillors are aware that somebody was doing this job.

So, with a spectacular record of doing little or nothing, I am not surprised that Councillor Clay is shy about declaring his Labour allegiance when denigrating MP Richard Taylor.

Nobody is kidded by the outburst. Labour still will not accept democracy, when 28,487 voters in Wyre Forest chose Richard Taylor and in the process buried their favourite.

Enjoy your grousing while you can, Councillor Clay. I forecast next May the voters of Bewdley will elect a council that properly recognises their political preference and it is not you and your colleagues.

FRANK BAILLIE

Health Concern county councillor for Rock and Bewdley,

Telford Drive

Bewdley