After reading this week’s Letters to the Editor page of the Watford Observer (March 10) I notice county councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst is passing the buck onto the Tories again regarding the disgraceful state of Hertfordshire’s highways and public footpaths.

It astounds me how Cllr Giles-Medhurst can justify his defence of his own party’s severe austerity measures created by the Lib Dems when in a coalition government.

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Therefore there is a sense of aloofness and a way of thinking when County Councillor Giles-Medhurst attempts to distance himself and his party from what has been doing on since 2010 with his own party chopping funding to county councils which then means a cut of 25 per cent to funding the maintenance and repair of Hertfordshire highways and public footpaths.

I must also draw County Councillor Giles-Medhurst’s attention to the fact that he should not be making assumptions as to what political party I am affiliated with.

Ernie Mackenzie, Gammons Lane, Watford Champion accessibility