Now for council tax reduction?

IS IT too much to hope that the forthcoming reductions in the price of water, gas and electricity, might encourage local government to match those by a corresponding reduction in council taxes for the forthcoming 2000/2001 period?

For many years we have been charged with increases above the rate of inflation – increases which, paradoxically, have been accompanied with a corresponding reduction in services!

Perhaps the powers-that-be need reminding that spirals don't have to be forever upwards and it's not written in stone that they should be so. Here in the Forest of Dean we live in what is, in economic terms, the poorest region in the whole of Gloucestershire, yet we are saddled with the highest council taxes for which we get the least return! – Concerned, Lydney.