I READ your article – Savage cuts will ‘rip the heart out of community’ (Keighley News, January 5) – and my heart sank as an individual.

My brain and cerebral capabilities as a town councillor also reject the notion strongly. Dismay has now turned to anger.

These cuts are morally wrong and they will rip the heart out of Keighley communities.

I represent the Bracken Bank and Ingrow area on Keighley Town Council where Pip Gibson, the community development worker for Keighley West and Worth Valley wards, does a fantastic job at organising community events for toddlers right up to pensioners and bringing people together.

The Sue Belcher Centre in Bracken Bank Avenue is very well used, which I have seen myself on occasions, and it’s vital it stays open for the good of the community.

My councillor e-mail basket is full of anger from residents of my ward asking if there is a petition to stop the community cuts to the community development workers like Ms Gibson and, ultimately, the community centres like Sue Belcher as well.

Bradford Council is having to make these deadly, debilitating cuts because central government is telling it to get its budget down to £300 million by 2020, from £550 million in 2010. The real blame, therefore, needs to be laid with the rule of the Conservatives and people like our MP, Kris Hopkins.

I, personally, would like to vote Conservative, I really would, but they keep doing such idiotic things like this that really strike a dagger through the hearts of deprived people in deprived areas like Keighley, who need a bit of compassion to alleviate their already very hard lives.

I really am very glum and depressed about these savage attacks on people and a town that I love and care for deeply.

COUNCILLOR SAMUEL FLETCHER Keighley Town Council, Bracken Bank and Ingrow ward