I FIND it astounding that Bolton Conservative Cllr David Greenhalgh has the gall to complain about the postal vote list for the Crompton by election.

Cllr Greenhalgh would no doubt want to keep it quiet that his Government has recently removed some 800,000 voters from the electoral register, with more on the way before the next election.

If anyone is tampering with our democracy and access to it, it is this Conservative Government who are trying lock the Labour party and others out of ever being elected again.

Then there is the fact that his Government were elected on a tiny majority where most people in the country did not vote for this government, yet they are seemingly acting like they have a huge majority as they dismantle and sell off our services based on the myth of austerity where chancellor George Osbourne has borrowed more money from the banks than any other government in UK history.

Steve Jones

Morris Green