Last updated at 12:15, Tuesday, 09 March 2010

When the ruling Conservative/Liberal Democrat alliance on Carlisle city council abrogated their elected responsibilities to this unelected body (Renaissance) to oversee the future of our city, they insulted the people who had elected them as councillors to act on our behalf.

Having done that, they then sat and watched as £6.6 million of taxpayers money was thrown about like confetti on all sorts of wild grandiose schemes – none of which have so far come to fruition.

As this dire scenario became obvious to all, including the electorate who had initially been kept in the dark, the Renaissance body started to latch onto sensible schemes put forward, implemented by other people, even claiming them as their ideas!

Our MP Eric Martlew says Renaissance should be wound up – the citizens of Carlisle have been wound up, if not stitched up, by this lot for some time.

PATRICK TRACEY
St Edmunds Park
Carlisle

First published at 11:25, Tuesday, 09 March 2010
Published by http://www.newsandstar.co.uk