HAVING just received the Liberal Democrat’s latest leaflet in Smithills, I am absolutely staggered by the breathtaking hypocrisy of Cllr Roger Hayes.

The offending leaflet addresses the issue of the Bedroom Tax and tries to claim credit for the negligible exemptions in the existing policy and declares the Lib Dems are now actually against the Bedroom Tax all together.

That he should have suddenly discovered the huge damage the bedroom tax is doing to vulnerable households in Smithills is perhaps not surprising in light of the proximity to the General Election, but in reality, the Lib Dems have spent the last three years consistently voting for the Bedroom Tax.

There wouldn’t even be a Bedroom Tax if it wasn’t for the Lib Dems! Even as recently as February this year, when the Labour Party tabled a bill to scrap the Bedroom Tax, the Lib Dems voted against it.

How dare Roger Hayes, seven months before the general election, claim that the Lib Dems are now against this heinous tax. In light of their continued inaction and actual proactive support for it, this latest infliction of duplicitous propaganda from the Lib Dems is unforgivable.

Ben Clarke Smithills