“ This is a stupidly destructive proposal. Why turn a purpose-built library into a shambles? Why deprive residents of a well-used service which their council tax is supposed to entitle them to receive? and why throw well-trained dedicated staff on to the dole? It would appear that we are going to rapidly lose our excellent libraries to the developers in a few years time because unstaffed, insecure libraries will be speedily vandalised, stripped of anything sellable and become no-go areas. Do we really want this to happen in our borough? ”