The blame game must stop

Sir, - So councillor (Bill) Duff is not only blaming the Conservative Government for cuts to local services, he is also blaming the SNP for freezing the Council Tax, thus stopping the local authority from collecting more money. It’s never us, it’s always them.

However, is what popped through my door this morning part of the solution to the frozen council tax?

Angus Council now want to charge residents £25 per year to pick up their green bins. Not a lot of money, but where will it end? Will they charge for picking up the grey, purple and food Waste bins in the future?

Not everyone has a car to take their garden waste to the nearest recycling centre, wherever that may be in the future, so will we have people burning their garden waste or just putting it in one of the other bins.

For many a year now we have heard successive governments talk about council tax reform, and yet nothing has ever been done to address this.

Why should a couple living in a modest home have to pay the same as the family of five next door?

In the end it is all to do with money or the lack of it, but politicians keep on playing the blame game just to score a few points.

It doesn’t feel like we are the sixth largest economy in the world. Al Buntin. 7 Provosts Walk, Monifieth.