CONGRATULATIONS to the Guardian for having helped to revive the moribund Northwich Vision with an open letter to CWAC councillors.

Like everyone concerned with the town’s welfare, I hope that the new organisation planned to drive the Vision forward will be inviting applications for the post of chairman by the end of November as promised.

Needless to say they will need considerable powers of leadership and business sense. Preferably they will have come from the private sector rather than the rather incestuous public one.

To quote Clr Musgrave, “we will need someone with dynamism and with a passion for Northwich Vision to take this forward. We don’t want a figurehead, it needs leadership”. A lack of leadership and vision were precisely the qualities lacking with our councillors according to local MP Mike Hall.

I would say that local politicians, like national ones, have lost considerable respect recently and any culture of deference that may have existed, has been severely and probably irrevocably damaged. From now on the public will judge more by results than promises and reward accordingly.

Reviving the Northwich Vision will test whether local councillors can still cut it. I get the impression that some local councillors are gathering around the body in case it might yield votes somewhere down the line.

STUART HOGG Northwich