Want to cut costs? Get rid of some councillors!

For a thousand years our law said marriage was the union of a man and a woman Norman Plaisted Newport

SO here we go again, another brainwave from the useless lot on the Vale council, asking for the people’s views on charges to use public toilets.

What on earth will it be next they want us to pay for? What on earth are we paying all this council tax for? All we get back is cuts on this, cuts on that. Oh but hang on a minute, where’s the council cutting their bit? You know there is money for the mayor’s bash but not for the elderly and the disadvantaged in our community, but we can make sure our councillors have a nice cup of tea and a biccy or piece of cake.

So would this mean the councillors when they have eaten our biccies and drunk the tea we paid for and they need to spend a penny would they pay to use them?

This is obviously a cost cutting exercise once again. I for one am totally against this ridiculous idea. Leave our toilets alone, and if you want to cut costs then start with a cull of senior councillors, they are a total waste of money.

DJ Radford Barry Marriage wreckers

IF something has worked fairly well for thousands of years, would you mess it about so it becomes a joke.

I talk of marriage, couples promising to stay together, and bring up their children in a stable environment as best as possible, with help from government laws. But the Government has made a mockery of marriage.

For a thousand years our law said marriage was the union of a man and a woman.

Then in 2013, David Cameron redefined marriage to make samesex marriage legal.

Now the so called Conservative (family) Government is consulting at the present time proposing “nofault divorce” – in effect scrapping the legal expectation of what marriage should be. Any spouse can end their marriage on demand. No reason is needed. This is a charter to wreck marriage. It will be harder to end your mobile phone contract than to end your marriage.

It makes me wonder, at times, whether there’s anyone in government with a brain, ethics or morals.

Norman Plaisted Newport

Just get on with it and vote for deal

THE Echo report (Wednesday, November 28) on how MPs intend to vote on the Brexit deal makes sad reading.

It was RA (Rab) Butler who described politics as the “art of the possible”. Negotiation is a matter of compromise to resolve points of difference and the expectation is that it produces advantages as well as disadvantages. I am sure neither the EU nor the UK is entirely happy with every point in the proposed deal, but it is the deal on offer.

The fact that both Brexiteers and Remainers are against it is a strong indication of its achievement as a pragmatic compromise.