SUE Buckingham (Letters, July 21) who now lives in Portsmouth asks why Portsmouth council has managed the Government cutbacks without producing the same chaos as in Southampton.

The answer is obvious.

Portsmouth is run by an efficient, caring Liberal Democrat Council. Similarly residents of Liberal Democrat run Eastleigh have enjoyed below inflation council tax increases for the last four years while the council still delivers improving services.

Same old Tories, sooner or later people will rumble them.

BRIAN DASH, County Councillor Dibden & Hythe.