MADAM,
No doubt like most other householders last Friday morning I found my Council Tax demand on the doorstep and having opened it uttered a howl of anguish at yet another swingeing increase.
For what, I asked myself, - I have no street lighting, there is no public transport, the surface drains are blocked, the roads are potholed and on the thankfully rare occasion I need to call a policeman I find myself talking to a desk officer in Pontypool and so on and so on.
I have since checked my records to find that since 1997 the Council Tax for my modest home has nearly doubled and the price of petrol has gone off the clock. Mr Blair and his colleagues at all levels of government - national, provincial, county and town - who have the brass neck to tell us that we are better off need to think again. They cannot fool the electorate all the time.
R N Harris
Rockfield,
Monmouth