I WAS dismayed to read in the Daily Echo that another City swimming pool has been put at risk by the failing Labour-run Council, this time in Bitterne.

Here in Millbrook, Redbridge and Maybush, residents will never forget that the Labour-run council closed Oaklands Pool over costs and safety fears, having failed to maintain it. This is the same council that has wasted millions of pounds.

The previous Tory-run council had also failed to get a grip.

Then the Labour council was forced by Coxford’s independently-minded councillors to allow the community to run it.

Now the Bitterne pool is under threat.

Why have they let it get so bad again? Will they ever learn?

Labour leisure chief Cllr Satvir Kaur has these questions, amongst others, that need to be answered.

Councillor Andrew Pope

Southampton Independents