Letter in the News and Crier 4/2/10

I'm commenting on letters in this weeks edition of the News and Crier. The letters are on Page 7.

No to car park charges - Cllr Bob Farrer has come out against the car parking charges at Riverside Car Park, St Neots. Conservative Cllr Farrer is saying that his colleagues have reneged on a previous decision to keep this Car Park free. Cllr Farrer also has a dig at the Conservatives colleagues on the set up of the Working Party. He feels the fact that a two members were married this is totally undemocratic?! This is somewhat at odds with a report which says: 3.1 The Working Party debated the proposals made and also received input from local Ward Members who attended the meeting. 

Cllr Farrer goes onto write: "Be assured, I, along with other local councillors, will not except (accept) that charges should be introduced to this car park."

The problem is how far is Councillor Farrer and his Conservative colleagues are willing to go. The question I have is if they are so against this are they going to vote against the budget at cabinet and/or Council.

In the second part of the letter Cllr Farrer goes on to attack the Liberal Democrats Town Council for not taking on the Public Conveniences. The Conservative controlled HDC tried to dump this service on the Town Council after reneging on a decision to keep this service. Cllr Farrer should be having another go at his Conservative colleagues about stopping this service rather than blaming the Liberal Democrats.

Don't stop church parking - Linda Walton writes: "I would like to say I have never used the library, the fire service, the police helicopter - I could go on - but I am paying tax too!"

None of which are services paid for by the Town Council. These services are there for the benefit of the whole community provided by public authorities as all public services are. The Church is not a public service. The church wants this car park and wants the taxpayer to fund this. Whilst I have seen many emotional reasons for the Council Taxpayer pouring money into a new car park, I don't see a case being made for taxpayer cash to prop up this church.

Biggest ward, smallest share - This letter is about the politics of envy which always costs the taxpayer loads of money. Rather than being between the envy of St Neots and Huntingdon we have the envy between The Eatons and Eynesbury. One further thought on Eynesbury Hardwicke. They paid little or zero council tax to their Parish Council. The question should not be aimed at SNTC but to the annexed residents as to why they didn't build these facilities under their old regime.