I note this evening that The Bookworm Turns has published another excellent, bang on the money post about the state of Leisure Services and more particularly the fate of Walsall’s beleaguered libraries. As I’ve said before, we need to get behind this cause and pursue it with our councillors and indeed, anyone who’ll listen. Our authority is clearly led by people with insufficient class to understand the huge value of such facilities and we must challenge the coming of a new intellectual dark age championed by philistines, ignoramuses and bean counters.

Dear Walsall Council,

I write in the hope of discouraging you from the disastrous course of action upon which you are about to embark, namely the savage cutting back of our borough’s exemplary public library and heritage services…

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