Here we go again, the Woodstock mafia, or town council, call it what you will, cock stabbing and feuding in a manner worthy of a banana republic, not an historic town like Woodstock (Oxford Mail, May 12).

At the last town council election, we had a few new faces.

Since then things seem to have got worse.

It is about time this sad and sorry bunch, with one or two exceptions, realised their limitations and shuffled off into oblivion, after handing over to the Mock Mayor of Old Woodstock and his corporation, a body that behaves with more dignity and decorum than our town council.

I notice that one town councillor has lost his seat on the county council, a victory for democracy.

Peter Matthews

Oxford Street

Woodstock