Hackney Gazette, September 1

I am very concerned about Councillor Jamie Carswell's comments in your letters pages.

The council has already sent out his pro-ALMO propaganda in half a dozen mailings to all tenants and leaseholders. All of it was pushing the ALMO and there was no balanced position against it. Reading his letter (August 25^th Gazette) it seems he doesn't like someone like Tony Butler putting the other side of the story. He claims Mr Butler is lying or inaccurate when really he just disagrees with his opinion. 

There are good and bad points about the ALMO and in my opinion the bad outweigh the good. I don't trust someone like Jamie Carswell who is trying to say it is 100% positive and there are no drawbacks.
 
Councillor Carswell states that "the majority of tenants and residents... voted for the ALMO in December." The truth is that after months of one-sided pro-ALMO propaganda paid for out of rents and service charges, the council only persuaded around 4000 people to support their ALMO project. This is just 14% of tenants and leaseholders, not the 64% Councillor Carswell claims. If he is so far out on this - what else is he misleading us on about the ALMO?

John Eden
Cazenove Road
N16