IT'S a bit rich Southampton City Council leader Alec Samuels criticising fellow councillor Liz Mizon for not heeding the views of a group of residents at Mansbridge who don't want a gypsy site near them.

He and his party have ignored the views of education experts, schools across the city, the universities, the city's businesses and major institutions, and both opposition parties including MPs. And all to bring to the city a group of outsiders to run two city schools. I think this calls his judgement into doubt.

KEITH REED, Southampton.