[garinda]

I think some politicans become so removed from the reality of many people's daily lives, that they regard revenue raised from taxes as being something that grows on trees. As was notably examplified by the shameful abuses seen in the expeses scandal nationally, and locally when some councillors chose to ignore independently guided expense levels, and decided to award themselves grossly inflated increases.

It isn't.

Every penny people pay in tax, in this case council tax, is hard earned, and this frittering away on a totally unncessary calendar, under the guise of letting people know how to contact their councillors, is just another example of the high and might aloofness of some of our elected representatives.

My mum, amongst countless others, lives in Ossy.

Her council tax is well over a thousand pounds.

The cost of this calendar was apparently £533.00.

So in real terms this means a still working pensioner, gets up at stupid o'clock four mornings a week, rolls by hand over four hundred teacakes by eight o'clock, in order to be able to pay her council tax.

In theory half her yearly payements are being used on the piece of trash, delivered to some residents, but not all.

Is it worth all my mum's efforts, or anyone else's, working hard and struggling to pay the ever increasing council tax bills?

No, it damn well isn't.

Perhaps some of the high and mighty might have a different view, when they're eventually knocked off their perches, in their gilded cages.