SEVERAL letters of late have been calling for all the cuts to council services be made from the top, and I think that this call is totally justified.

Cardiff council along with Vale, Merthyr and RCT are all looking to save money by making more cuts to public services such as, leisure centres, meals on wheels, libraries where the Vale council are looking for slave labour to run these for nothing.

Some councils are even looking to change the working conditions of employees by cutting working hours and changing their contracts which will mean probably a cut in pay.

Let’s not forget we have over 600,000 people using foodbanks, tens of thousands of children malnourished, millions of workers on the minimum wage, zero hours contracts, household bills rising, food costs rising, and the government says inflation is 1.2 per cent, yeah right, pull the other one.

But what we have is our political elite totally immune from any of this and it’s about time this was changed, with more austerity and cuts coming from the Tory lot in London. The country cannot afford to pay these politicians both in Westminster, Cardiff and locally the salaries being paid now.

It has just been found out that our Labour administration in Cardiff have spent over £400,000 on their chauffer driven, top of the range Volvos this year. They have also increased the fleet from seven to 10, these politicians in Cardiff live way above their station and I don't know who on earth they think they are.

There is no justification in these times to pay council leaders over £45,000 a year or CEOs over £120,000 a year, to pay these politicians this amount of money, which is more than a nurse, or fireman, or care worker is obscene.

If politicians of this country wish to be politicians that's fine but the pay grade should be the minimum wage, the people I would think are getting really fed up of being screwed by politicians while at the same time watching you lot be totally immune from the cuts. But we do have one ace up our sleeve and that will come at election time.

D J Radford

Coleridge Crescent

Barry