Crook

Why should people have to put up with yet another council?

The only people to benefit from councils over the last few years were the councillors.

Not only are councillors paid their expenses, they also receive a pension for being a councillor at the expense of the people they represent.

Let’s look back over the last few years and see what they have done for the people they have represented.

They demolished the Cooperative store building and replaced it with the most ugly looking building in the country – only the town pigeons like it. The name of this building?

Laughably, it’s called the Civic Centre.

They also spent £300,000 on a feasibility study for a ski-slope, £100,000 to try and stop Asda opening 24 hours, thousands to a farmer for storing green bins on his land and hundreds building brick flower beds on the market and then, after a few weeks, they spent even more demolishing them. Not forgetting money lavished on the prisoner of war camp at Harperby – 60 years too late.

We have more than three times the number of houses in Crook that we had 70 years ago and the shopping facilities are much worse than they were.

Why not have a donkey for mayor of Crook? It would cost less, the children could ride on its back and the people would receive the same benefits as if they had councillors.

Even better, the donkey could feed on the grass where the leisure centre once stood.

All those councillors who wondered what they should do with the Civic Centre building could convert part of it into a rather plush stable.

G Hall, Crook.