LIKE probably thousands of people the ending of 2016 cannot come quick enough.

Certainly for my family that is true.

We owe a great deal of gratitude to the caring doctors, nurses, surgeons and all other staff at the cancer care unit at Heath hospital.

This letter is not about them but about our most caring Tory Government and politicians locally.

I would like to thank this oh so caring Tory government for the help that was not there when we needed it.

Myself and my wife have worked all our lives, paid our taxes and have not claimed a single penny in benefits until my wife became ill, and guess what?

Just because our total income was five pounds over we could not claim a penny, yet these politicians claim tens of thousands of pounds in expenses.

We pay their mortgages, rent, council tax, food bills, decorating; the list is endless.

Yet when we put a claim in it is denied.

Locally we have the first minister Carwyn Jones hiring his very own private jet to take him to France to watch Wales play football and not one single argument is made.

The cost to us, the taxpayer, was almost £10,000 and trying to get further costings meals, accommodation etc has been met with rubbish excuses from Keith Moses from the cabinet office.

This is an absolute disgrace.

Locally we have Labour councillors on obscene salaries.

The CEO on over £140,000 to do what?

Leader of the council on £47,000 to do what?

Total waste of money.

These Labour councillors have ruined our town.

We are paying for our waste food recycle bags.

The council turn our lights off at midnight all to save money yet not one councillor has been cut.

The whole political elite of this country are a shocking disgrace.

Doesn’t it just make you sick?

DJ Radford

Coleridge Crescent

Colcot

Barry