LIKE many people, I have just paid my first instalment of the Council Tax, £83, which includes the 14 per cent increase.
My widow's pension has been increased by just over 1 per cent.
Does anybody else wonder what they are getting for an extra 14 per cent?
Personally, all I feel I ever got was the bin emptied once a week and I would be more than willing to make an alternative arrangement for that service.
I get the impression that councillors think the Council Tax-payers provide them with an unlimited source of income.
Once elected, I feel that our wants and wishes are ignored.
The latest ghastly scheme seems to involve demolishing lovely mat-ure houses and replacing them with a dozen or more featureless dwell-ings - twelve lots of rates instead of one!
Beware of killing the goose that lays the golden egg is only one expression that comes to mind.
G MORTIMER, Jubilee Close, Ledbury.
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