Residents must now be getting a sense of de-ja-vu whenever they read the latest diktat, in the local press, from the council's propaganda department in the Socialist Republic of Slough.

The planet has encountered great threats in the past – not least the threat of nuclear weapons especially during the cold war in the latter half of the last century.

Yet another excessive and unnecessary spend hidden away in the archives of town hall emerged this week in the national press.

Cllr James Swindlehurst, Labour Leader of Slough Borough Council has yet again missed the point, and thinks by belittling our manifesto and budget amendments he somehow justifies Labour's constant failures.

I read with great interest Slough Labour’s manifesto for the local elections which they launched last week.

Both of us writing this article were not born in Slough but moved here, and what this allows us to do is take a ‘step back’ view of the town, and its development.