As is usual, the professional politicans, in the shape of the verbose Paul Cosham (Opinion Extra, May 31), continue to twist the facts and seek to denigrate the councillors who want to have nothing to do with political masters.

The independent councillors on Telscombe Town Council are truly without allegiance to any political party and, because we hold the majority, the remaining Liberal Democrats seek to disrupt every council meeting with petty arguments and points of order rather than getting on with the work in hand.

Coun Cosham's "shambles" of a meeting was totally orchestrated by the Liberal Democrats, purely to cause mayhem.

Long before their own walk-out, I was the first to leave the chamber, in disgust, stating to the mayor I was no longer willing to listen to and sit through the rubbish the Liberal Democrats were intent on forcing on the meeting.

From the beginning they were rude and arrogant, interrupting a speech of thanks from the outgoing mayor and highlighting anything else they thought merited a "point of order".

That Coun Cosham can talk about "treating people with respect" after his group's disgusting and discourteous behaviour merely proves how arrogant these politicians can be.

Coun Cosham's rabble had every opportunity to participate in the selection and election of the various committees but chose not to do so. To then complain he does not know the make-up of the committees is a crass statement.

He knows there was no exclusion of the public from the committee meetings and that there were no "closed doors".

The members of the public who were there were disgusted by the Liberal Democrats' behaviour.

I trust this will be reflected by the general population when it comes to voting for the county councillors and the MPs.

-Tony Prince, Independent councillor, Telscombe Town Council