IN response to the front page of last week’s Guardian, together with a letter inside.

The full facts surrounding the Middlewich bypass and why the initiation and submission of a petition relating to it would be both time-wasting and superfluous have been fully explained on more than one occasion, together with updates being provided on progress. The fact that some people choose neither to listen nor to hear, for whatever reason, is their choice.

However, this becomes inexcusable when such behaviour is used to create false and misleading alternatives to the truth.

Completion of the bypass has been successfully negotiated and commitment to it given, but there are also seriously important factors which need to be taken into consideration in order to optimise, rather than compromise, future increased benefits for the town – the key to much of which lies in the currently evolving Neighbourhood Plan.

Perhaps, therefore, if these people listened a little more attentively instead of simply wanting to play the kind of silly, childish political games, they might learn.

Cllr Mike Parsons Cheshire East