LETTER: Thousand voters showed support

Say what you like about Helena Croft, and obviously David Shipton (WSCT 11.06.15) finds that hard, but the fact is on May 7th over 1,000 Henfield voters showed a willingness to accept her as one of our District Council representatives. So, no ‘unprecedented act of rejecting’ Helena here !
By The Newsroom
Published 28th Jun 2015, 21:00 BST

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I appreciate that Mr Shipton (a relation to our revered Ed-in-chief ?) has longheld grievances against a number of our local councillors - but why so vociferous against Helena? And to recommend reading Dale Carnegie ‘How to win friends and influence people’ appeared simply too tongue-in-cheek for me.

However, I note Dale Carnegie wrote his book in the aftermath of his own failure and great personal pain - he divorced in 1931 . . . so maybe there’s still hope for lesser mortals like us? To quote him directly: ‘Any fool can criticise, complain, and condemn - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.’

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God, help me please, and David Shipton too, whose letters are usually so thought-provoking !

Tom Blair-Fish

Furners Lane, Henfield

**Editor’s note: There is absolutely no connection between correspondent David Shipton and the Editor In Chief of this newspaper Gary Shipton. The fact they share the same surname is a coincidence.

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