SIR – I was amused to read the letter regarding new rules at waste disposal sites, restricting the use of trailers.

Why this should be necessary escapes my comprehension but perhaps the council knows why the decision was made.

(Or did they themselves not actually make it?) I was not aware of any problems, nor of any request, for public input towards this apparently arbitrary change.

What is the benefit we can expect?

However, I fear that this is just one manifestation of an insidious move towards government by regulation, already well-established at Westminster and all too obviously creeping into our local life more and more.

One might say that it is efficient, but is it democratic?

We pride ourselves on our democracy and promote it all over the world as a desirable condition, yet we are allowing it to be subverted by bureaucrats in our own country.

This creeping overregulation of our lives is not democratic, any more than Joe Stalin was, and I suspect that many of the officers and councillors who make these regulations secretly enjoy their power to direct other people’s lives.

What seems evident is that they are not people who actually do any substantial practical work, or have large gardens, possibly never use a waste disposal site, do not own a trailer!

In the absence of any public benefit, I suggest that this apparently bird-brained restriction is quickly dropped.

Whatever will they think of next? I wonder what their time costs us taxpayers?

TREVOR PARSONS

West Malvern