I M disappointed that your paper saw fit to publish an anonymous, highly abusive diatribe against the community website Loch of Shining Waters and the Independent candidate James Glen.

The author denounces me as a Conservative candidate in North East Fife plus an unnamed "ragtag bunch of Nats" for working with James.

The reason James and I can work together and with individuals who support the SNP, Labour or, for all I know, the Monster Raving Looney Party, is because we share positive, practical aspirations for the community.

Tribal politics are irrelevant - unless of course people like "Inside Left" make them the be-all and end-all, in which case they become thoroughly destructive.

Perhaps "Inside Left" is a lone nutter, his destructive tribal bent the exception rather than the rule in local Labour circles.

If that is so, can we expect the two Labour councillors he singles out for praise - Councillors Linda Erskine and Mark Hood - to waste no time in distancing themselves from the foul words of their supporter?

LINDA HOLT,

Dreel House,

Pittenweem.