Town council: daft idea?

Why does anyone think that our lives would be improved by another layer of bureaucracy?

We already have politicians in Brussels, at Westminster, at County Hall and Town Hall, and judging from the state of the world as a whole, the crisis in Europe, and to descend from the sublime to the ridiculous, the concrete balls and not-fit-for-cattle-shelters in Bexhill, all said politicians are equally inept and mediocre.

A Town Council, having no powers other than to submit their opinions to higher authority would be about as much use to us as would a pogo stick to a kangaroo. Such a council would be stuffed with the usual array of party hacks who would all bow to their respective leaderships higher up the chain. And, as an earlier writer said, some of them would be the same people as already sit on Rother and East Sussex Councils. They would then pass on their views as Town Councillors to themselves as Rother or East Sussex Councillors.

If either of the existing councils’ need to know the views of the man or woman in the street (no! don’t laugh) they only have to ask us. (I had to stop typing for a while here to observe a Gloucester Old Spot cruising at 3,000 feet).

I hope that one widely held view among the electorate is that we neither need nor want another slew of ‘We know best types’ helping themselves to expenses from our council taxes.

DD SHADWELL

De La Warr Road

Bexhill