I WAS delighted that the Gazette quoted Councillor David Hughes ("Agreed, councils will share a boss", June 27) in saying, there was "no proposal on the table to get rid of any senior management".

Cllr Paul Swinburn when challenged on this very point on the night became terribly animated and insisted that "he had phoned some minister and could confirm that to get bid money for the merger we did not have to share senior managers".

But Cllr Tom Wells and Cllr Jill Campbell, when reading from the bid document, disclosed that you did, indeed, need to share all senior managers.

Both leader and deputy leader insisted that the vote being made was only to share a chief executive.

So someone here has got the wrong end of the stick. I know who I believe.

But the most telling comment made by Cllr Hughes was that Malvern Hills District Council could not follow the model used by Rugby Council (where they did away with a chief executive altogether) because it required strong political leadership.

Never a truer statement from the leader of Malvern Hills.

Such a shame we do not have strong political leadership.

Sarah Rouse

Leigh Sinton