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Alliance is a big issue for voters
• IT was quite amusing to read in your paper that the Tories and Lib Dems have declared their Town Hall alliance is "not an issue" in the Kentish Town by-election campaign.
As far as I am aware the two parties have signed up to a joint programme to run Camden for four years.
The Tory and Lib Dem candidates therefore both support the cuts that are threatening the community law centre and CAB in Kentish Town, they both support building a school in Swiss Cottage rather than the south of the borough, and they both support closing down the Jamestown mental health centre having previously promised to keep it open.
So in reality Kentish Town voters have a choice between Labour's clergyman, a Green anti-car campaigner and two Tory-Lib Dem Alliance candidates!
MICHAEL NICOLAIDES
Highgate Road, NW5
• I'M not surprised that the Lib Dem and Tory candidates think that voters should "ignore" their power sharing arrangement in the forthcoming by-election (Labour polls hopes rest on a swing and a prayer).
However, as a Kentish Town voter, I feel the existence of their alliance goes to the heart of the choice facing us.
The simple fact is that the Lib Dems have put the Tories into power in the borough, with Tories taking decisions on our schools, health and social care.
All the evidence points to the council pursuing a right-wing agenda of spending cuts, particularly in the voluntary sector and particularly in the south of the Borough.
A vote for the Lib Dems is a vote for the Tories, and vice-versa. It's simply wrong and illogical to suggest otherwise.
STEPHEN KAPOS
Lupton Street NW5
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