• AN intriguing front page on the New Journal last week (Town Hall’s £2.5m bungle kept secret, July 27) where Conservative councillors criticise a Labour bungle.

The fiasco is perhaps a result of the confrontational party structure of even local government.

xperience shows, as furthermore systematically established by a Rowntree Foundation report, that decisions are soundest where achieved by consensus of the widest range of input.

Instead opposition can only oppose after the error and not contribute beforehand to avoid it.

ADRIAN BETHAM
North Road, N6