Councillor Martin Goss has done it again.

He has misinterpreted what I have said (Letters, March 19).

Martin says I must be suffering from either amnesia or double standards.

The letter Martin refers to, and which I could not possibly have forgotten, is the one I wrote to the Gazette last October, in which I pledged my support for the campaign to retain the strip of land at Norman Way as open space and to oppose the new road to Philip Morant School.

Martin’s description of my support as “utter hostility” is, of course, a bit of an exaggeration.

Martin, rightly, says Conservative councillor Sue Lissimore wrote in support of the road.

He then says he finds it hard to understand how a man who has defected from the Conservative Party (to UKIP) can write in support of a councillor who has clearly completely opposed his own strong views on the Philip Morant road.

The explanation is quite simple. I made it clear in my letter I support Sue because she is an extremely hard-working, dedicated councillor.

I could not be so bigoted as to condemn someone just because that person holds a different view to that held by me.

So, Martin, not amnesia, nor double standards, just very old-fashioned principles of honouring a promise and respecting other people’s right to hold their own views.

Ron Levy
All Saints Avenue
Colchester