I READ with interest the Review editorial (March 23, 2012) 'Clear blue water – a vote winner?' in which an election candidate in Monmouthshire wants to scrap Monmouthshire Council in its current form by privatising all services. Maybe a little bit too extreme, but certainly worth some thought rather than just scratching the surface on the proposal.

Turning to the District Council at Coleford, and as many including my ex-colleague Cllr James Bevan knows, I am of the firm opinion that a comprehensive independent professional job evaluation of every public servant post at Coleford is long overdue – a "speculate to de-accumulate" policy.

If non-jobs that produce little or nothing in Local Government (believe me, they are there) could be "weeded out" and disestablished it would benefit the many not the few.

Who could reasonably argue with me that if wages have been paid with anything connected with regenerate improvement in Lydney over the last 10 years those wages have been paid under an obvious false pretence – just one glaring example.

Limit the number of high-paid council employees – to this end I must congratulate another of my ex-colleagues,?Cllr Maria Edey, and her attempt at the last council meeting to accelerate the demise of a Strategic Director post. Sadly if failed.

I fundamentally believe the potential for savings whilst not having an impact on "front-line" services is enormous – savings that would help to put a brake on the 31p plus in every £ burden of council tax being paid into the Local Government pension fund, and savings that should ensure among other things the retention of free parking, giving our local businesses at least a small boost and incentive to grow and succeed which may give the opportunity for employment in productive, real jobs.

– Alan Preest, UKIP, Bream.