Knowsley's extreme right wing new labour council are again demonstrating their true colours.

This week, residents in Kirkby, who cannot keep up the payments on their crippling council tax bills, have received letters from the council, threatening to commit them to prison, even before they have appeared in court.

The threat is printed in large red letters, and has distressed many people. Where is the consideration of peoples circumstances? And more worryingly since when have the council had powers to commit people to prison ? In years gone by this hard line approach would have raised a storm of protest from the now defunct "left wing socialists" in Kirkby, who have shamefully taken the Kaiser Keight shilling.

This policy is being pushed by the secretive right wing clique who rule the council. Most of them are drawing state, and occupational pensions, and are cushioned from such pressures, by raking in huge allowances,( many in excess of £20,000) of council taxpayers money. -Cllrs R. Round, L Nolan, E Parker, Mrs Flaherty & Mrs Quilliam - amongst them. Has anyone in Kirkby have ever even heard of these political cretins.

The low paid ,unemployed, and those on benefits, no longer have a voice to help them in the council or in the new labour party. It is even unlikely that a Tory council would take such a bully-boy approach to the financially vulnerable. This same new labour crew recently awarded 15% pay rises to senior executive officers of the council, taking their salaries through the £100,000 a year barrier.

Yet Knowsley is the smallest council in the country, and pay some of the highest salaries to people who don't, or wont, live within its boundary, and not a peep from the rag bag of new labour toadies