Yet another anguished headline in the Lynn News on Tuesday about a non-event which most people (but not those who appear to be your mates at Kings Lynn council) will be a happy about.

A neutral and a clever one at that, recommends that our second-rate borough council is blown up.

Unfortunately for the council's senior team they have been found out, and as they have presided over Lynn becoming a sad, somewhat worn-out town betrayed by planners and politicians for decades, they have finally got their just desserts.

The problem with our borough council is that it has long failed to recruit top-notch officers, and it shows, ie where are the major employers?

Lynn has more of a reputation as a haven for disreputable gangmasters than attracting substantial inward investment.

So the latest wheeze is to build a marina?

Wow that's a good one, that will really provide sustainable employment for local people and lots of space for their fancy boats.

Just who are these people kidding? Why not try to attract a boat builder, or a major service industry plc.

Let's get some work where real skill and training is required, along with the unskilled jobs Lynn and the rural poor really urgently need?

Unfortunately such a task appears beyond the competence of our current team of council officers and politicians, it has, and always will be, jam tomorrow and empty promises.

So let's get behind the new proposals and grab the opportunity to rid ourselves of a Tory-dominated, hopeless council forever... or at least to the next reorganisation, which in itself is no bad thing if it keeps the people we pay for on their toes.

Mike Oldfield, Holme

The editor says: Sorry, I couldn't let your letter go without comment.

Firstly, I doubt that, overall, the people at the borough council think of us as mates. We've often not seen eye-to-eye, as we've often exposed things which appear wrong, or, most importantly, given the public the chance to criticise.

The point you miss is quite simply that the best option for the people of West Norfolk, which the Lynn News backs, is the east-west split.

It is the best way to make sure local people have the best chance to influence decisions which affect them – not left to people based in Norwich, with a few from part of Suffolk thrown in for good measure.

The marina will be good for Lynn, attracting jobs, people to spend in our shops and service industries – possibly including boat building.

And it is wrong to suggest that we are not attracting big business. What about the £300m paper plant for West Lynn and the new college?

Yes, I agree, the skills shortage is worrying. But it is a key issue being looked at by local government, business and education.

What you have appeared to overlook is that West Norfolk Council will no longer exist under any of the changes.