I read Fred Horsington’s letter ‘Delays are costly’ (Your Say, June 2) with amazement.

This is surely a case of ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’.

By his own admission, he fought tooth and nail to avoid a proper public examination by judicial inquiry of WDDC’s frankly undemocratic and financially suspect decision to create a monstrous eyesore in Charles Street.

Now he has the temerity to ask Alistair Chisholm to disclose how much cash was raised by SCON.

I’m not sorry you lost your seat Fred. Time will tell whether your actions to make sure the ‘application was properly dealt with’ fell within the definition of what the electorate will find to be acceptable.

I don’t know on what basis you claim that SCON cost the taxpayers £600,000.

Of course, like many other details of the council offices saga, we don’t know what premature commitments were made by WDDC at a time when they might have been wiser to face up to the hostility surrounding the matter and answer some questions properly.

‘Facing up’ is not something the Tory councillors who have orchestrated the decisions have been very good at. Even the local MP has kept his head down.

As a donor to SCON myself, I have no anxieties whatsoever about how they use the cash.

Sadly, I haven’t the same trust in your former colleagues who will eventually, no doubt, take coffee on the ‘royal balcony’ overseeing their subjects from a very lofty perch.

Mike Joslin, Garfield Avenue, Dorchester