WE have to realise we are being conned!

No, this is not a message from Bromsgrove District Council or any of the MP's jumping on the band-wagon as we go up to yet another General Election, which is - hold your breath everyone - in 'only' 17 weeks time, it's a letter from a council taxpayer that wonders what we have down in Bromsgrove that needs so much of a 'feed' off our hard earned money!

Who wants to spoil your Christmas? Answer is, no one wants to, Christmas time is when you try to block out the eventual and also the never pre-conceived, very much like what the council would like to do every time they look at what their activities have cost us at the end of every year.

Labour, in their pre-election speech, have just given us a pre-election hope, but it is really doom, it's doom because we will pay for this 'handout-hope' after the election in May next year.

Tory controlled Bromsgrove Council were heading towards double figure council tax demands, but because Labour want to stay in power as a ruling government, a massive handout to the council will in fact halt this...but it will in the process also but a blind on the Tory's continued incompetence of our services. We have to pay out taxes to pay for our public services.

We vote in people to work out what taxes are necessary to run this little island of ours and all it's services, but the stark reality is, they are not now running an island that supplies us with services, they are now running an island that employs people that take our money in extravagant amounts.

Stan Francis

Romsley