REGARDING the letter from Peter Caswell, Guardian, November 21, where he describes the article about the recent investigation into the local Labour party and the points given by a senior Labour source as ‘utter nonsense’, and claims the Guardian has been misinformed.

I am also a member of the Labour Party and can only think that Mr Caswell, with all his experience, must have spent a lot of his time with blinkers on.

We have just seen investigations into two Labour councillors by the police and the party at local and national level and although the police compiled a file on one of them no action was taken.

He states the recent re-election of Helen Jones as our MP is a testament as to how the local Labour party operates. I must point out that the fact that the National Labour party has had to appoint Lord Kennedy to investigate the Warrington North branch of the Labour party has not been taken lightly and one of the recommendations put forward by Lord Kennedy is that the selection process has to involve all members.

Myself and other members have never been invited to the recent selection process of the MP Helen Jones, or for any in the past.

As Mr Caswell states, by law the National Labour Party cannot control the local party, but the same should apply to this branch, that had, and still has, total control over the Labour party in Warrington.

K MANNION Orford