ONCE again I?will quote the Forest MP (January 10, 2008): "To justify any move away from the status quo and introduce car parking charges would require some compelling evidence of the benefit to Forest residents. I've looked carefully at all the information produced by the council so far but I don't see any benefit from this policy."

Yet 22 councillors (predominantly and bizarrely Tory) have failed to heed the advice of Harper, Pickles and Portas, choosing to be ignorant towards a rather large petition and have allowed themselves to be led "Pied Piperish" into agreeing to a business plan that simply does not add up – a project that before implementation has squandered close on 100k and will not pay for itself in a lifetime.

And for what? To retain non-jobs to oversee more non-jobs.

To recall a song of the Great War: "One staff-officer jumped upon another staff-officer's back and another staff-officer..." And so on and so on.

With the cuts that the Armed Forces and police are having to endure, schemes such as the retention/creation of public servant non-jobs could easily be defined as legalised criminality.

A number of suggestions, some even polite, have recently been made to myself that the 22 responsible should be remembered for perpetuity.

1: On each car park, place a brass plaque forming an anagram from the first letter of the 22 surnames: I could only very quickly work out – Headless, Shameless, Bleed Dry – require assistance from Channel 4's Countdown programme!

2: Personalise 22 spaces in each car park, Banksy style, with the name of the councillor – spray paint can be supplied at a discounted rate!

3: Twenty-six tonnes of the finest manure has been offered to dump on implementation at the entrance to the Lydney Newerne Street car park. Perhaps a little too extreme – 22 sacks placed strategically in the Coleford council chambers would suffice!

4: As an obituary to potential catastrophic demise of small town centre businesses, at the commencement of Chamber of Commerce meetings a "Roll of Honour" of the 22 be read out periodically published in the Press, with an increased frequency towards election time!

My ex-colleague Venk Shenoi recently wrote some poignant words: "The administration in the Forest of Dean can at best be described as sleep walking in a trance, not quite sure where they are headed and powerless to come out of their stupor. Coupled with lack of competitive business culture at the highest administrative levels, this spells disaster during the lean times Britain is passing through." I fully concur and more.

If Cllr Robinson is ever going to come close to justifying one of the most extraordinary contradictory job titles of all time – "Member for Efficient Council" ­– he must turn 180 degrees and, if capable, look microscopically inwards. Conservatives? No Liberals here to appease, so what's the problem?

No doubt Mr Shenoi and yours truly can tell you.

I also suspect if a "secret" non-whipped ballot had been available the result could well have been different.

Now, where shall I?put that manure!

– Alan Preest (UKIP), Green­acre, Bream.