I COULDN'T let Ian Weekley’s comments regarding my political leaning go unchallenged (GP, Nov 11).

Your use of words such as ‘carping’, ‘criticism’, ‘petulant’, ‘intransigent’, ‘illogical’, ‘inaccurate’ and ‘incorrect’ just smacks of hyperbole – words for the sake of words!

Your assumption that I am a Labor Party supporter is so inaccurate as to be ludicrous.

I live in a country where I can criticise the actions/choices that our political representatives make without wearing my political leanings on my sleeve.

Ian, let me explain to you why I consider that my rights as a voter have been undermined by the backroom boys. Yes, the Party nominates who the leader will be and will take the party to the election, thus the voters know who the leader is going to be and vote accordingly.

When these backroom boys decide that they aren’t happy with their choice of leader, they make the decision to change the leader to suit their own agendas. This leaves the voters disenfranchised with no choice.

At the risk of repeating myself, I always considered the Liberal Party to be more trustworthy and ethical than the Labor Party (i.e Rudd-Gillard-Rudd fiasco) which did them no favours with the voter or the population at large.

I am sure that Angus Taylor is a highly intelligent man – you don’t get the label ‘Rhodes Scholar’ without having abilities right across the board.

But for the voter, he has to demonstrate that he has their interests as a priority and not self -promotion leaving the voter with the impression that we were just used to achieve higher status.

You are entitled to your opinion and as I am to mine so we will agree to disagree on how political parties operate and regard the average voter.

Pamela Watts, Goulburn.