Council’s scurrilous double standards

12:38pm Thursday 9th March 2006

I recall once hearing football described as a game of two halves'. Never was this more apt than on page five of your March 2 issue (Bees' chief issues election ultimatum').

The top half of the page has Tony Kleanthous issuing his election ultimatum on the future of Barnet Football Club. No-one who has followed this saga on Underhill can have other than sympathy for both the club and their supporters. This final statement exhibits in its entirety what desperation they feel at the hands of a council which shows little concern and even less consideration.

The middle of the page deals with the sale of Hendon Football Club and that Barnet Council is not finding it the done deal' it expected. As one of the referred to 50 or more beneficiaries who, incidentally, speak for the more than 2,000 objectors who are oft-forgotten in this argument I am in no doubt of the responsibility that sits squarely on our shoulders in fighting to the death to ensure that this monstrous development never takes place.

Back in the 1920s, the councillors of Middlesex, with far-sighted vision and consideration for the lives and environment of future generations, protected the open spaces with covenants, which were then handed for safe keeping to the similarly caring and honourable borough of Hendon.

I cannot see any resemblance between these honourable and dedicated men and the scurrilous rabble that currently fills their seats with such lack of concern.

Morton Morris Cheviot Gardens, Cricklewood