‘May 6 by-elections was the perfect opportunity for an anti-LTN protest vote. But few chose to take it’

• I WAS puzzled by the letters from John Walters, (The LTN debate shows the split between the boroughs haves and have-nots, May 21).

The former believes the working class is enraged by LTNs but, if that is so, it has a funny way of showing it.

There were five council by-elections on May 6 and Labour, which brought in the LTNs, won all of them. It did not do so with the support of cyclists resident elsewhere.

He refers to “smaller parties who are fighting for our rights”. Which are they and why did they not win?

Covid-19 permitting, Islington Council is up for re-election in less than a year’s time. Mr Walters is free to campaign for the working class to throw out “Islington metropolitan élite” Labour.

Ms McGhie writes that she voted for a Labour council because it supports council house building and opposes the government’s public expenditure cuts, (LTNs have created a divided borough, May 21).

However Labour would have remained comfortably in control of the council even it had lost all five by-elections making those May 6 by-elections the perfect opportunity for an anti-LTN protest vote. But few chose to take it.

STEPHEN HORNE
Romilly Road, N4