WHILE the country has been asked to show the greatest of common sense over the last few months in the light of the crisis that has overtaken our country, and in the main people have responded outstandingly, it appears that our borough councillors have been seriously effected by a lunar phase that once again has rendered them to complete insanity.

I refer, of course, to the borough council’s latest masterpiece of wisdom in intending to make charges for the collection of garden waste.

Apart from being a back-door council tax increase, it’s obvious to anyone with a minute amount of common sense that the level of fly-tipping, which is already a considerable problem, would increase.

The level of bonfires would likewise escalate, thereby adding to the level of greenhouse gasses and pollution that is emitted by Colchester’s residents in a world that is striving and struggling to reduce its carbon emissions.

I suppose the borough council expects us to queue for hours to take our garden waste to the already inadequate facility at Shrub End and to sit there in the queuing for hours with engines running, what madness is that I ask?

If we need to strive to save money, why not look at reviewing the ward boundaries and reducing our councillors and their expenses by 50 percent as they obviously need a fit-for-purpose reality check.

I therefore hope that the people of Colchester will ask their councillors to drop this crackpot idea once and for all.

Paul Absolon Mill Lane, Birch

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