WE have the furore over a senior government minister resigning, apparently over his disagreement with public spending cuts.

Perhaps our local councillors should reconsider their spending cuts that adversely affects the elderly, young and vunerable people in our society.

The of these latest being the closure of the public toilets and all the meaningless political rhetoric that surrounds that issue.

The taxpayer is also seeing more cuts to the public transport system making it difficult for people without cars to get about.

But we have yet to see any cuts to the way our local governments spend money on their political aspirations, which are costing many millions of pounds.

In these austere times they would be better spent providing the services for which the taxpayer is contributing to through local taxes.

One area of savings is to stop public consultations because our councillors and managers have already taken the final decisions ahead of any consultation this I know from attending such events.

Tony Fellenor

Farleigh Close

Chippenham