The point has been proved

OUR campaign calling for an end to the hugely unfair “shower tax” continues to gather pace.

In an online poll, more than 1,200 of our readers (representing 87.3% of those who took part) have thus far backed demands for the charge to be axed (see pages 12&13).

Meanwhile, the horror stories keep coming. The weekly levy was introduced in 2007, with the initial understanding it would end in 2011 – and with the caveat that those having a shower fitted following medical advice would be immune.

Twelve years later the charge of £5 or £10 a week is still being paid, meaning some have now forked out more than £6,000.

And, as case studies highlighted in this newspaper have shown, even those with a medical need have been made to pay. In many instances those moving into council properties years after a shower was fitted have unwittingly inherited the charge.

All the evidence is in place – the case is surely made.