I THINK it’s time that we offered our congratulations to the circus called the Vale of Glamorgan Council and the clowns running it.

Neil Moore deserves a big slap on the back for all that he has achieved lately. This includes cutting back on our library expense by cutting jobs and hiring slave labour, sorry re-phrase that, volunteers. Mr Moore should be given praise for giving us a fantastic deal on our recycling habits by charging us for our replacement waste food bags.

Mr Moore certainly needs a pat on the back for coming up with a plan for shoppers to stay out of Barry by looking to introduce parking charges to various streets in Barry. Mr Moore has really excelled himself with this brilliant brain wave by hiking our Council Tax by 3.9 per cent, I am sure that all the residents of Barry are over the moon with Neil Moore over this one.

Finally, not to mention this one would be an injustice, but Mr Moore must be congratulated that he spent over £250,000 on a council refurbishment so he and his circus can debate what he wants to spend our money on. Oh I nearly forgot this one, Mr Moore our fantastic council leader has now had a brilliant brain wave that he can find £212,000, yes £212,000, of our money to spend on 30 pool cars that he is leasing, then he tries to fob us off not intentionally, that it will save more than £125,000 in its first year, hang on a minute if he’s paid £212,000 for these cars how can it save £125,000 in its first year, I mean does that include the cost of fuel, insurance, minor maintenance etc.

If Mr Moore wanted to save money on car expense why not just drop the mileage allowance to say 15p a mile. Once again the Vale Council pleads poverty and hits us residents with hit after hit, yet this same man can find another £212,000 plus on top of that he can find £127,000 to pay a newly hired CEO.

Why on earth didn't they abolish this role and save the money, what on earth is this guy going to do for this amount of money especially when they pay their own staff peanuts.

I think it’s time this circus left town and took the clowns with it.

D J Radford

Coleridge Crescent

Barry