BRIAN Dawe of Mottingham has highlighted yet another injustice in the use of the council tax, threatening to return his war medals in protest (News Shopper, February 22).

All my life I have marvelled at the stupidity which says there is some advantage in person A being able to run faster than person B.

I am even more incredulous they can make a professional' living by it I just cannot visualise a more pointless existence.

Now I am faced with the crowning insult as well as tolerating massive building disruption I have to pay for this irrelevance through the already unfair council tax.

Set initially at some £20 or more per year (Band D, early estimate don't hold your breath) for 12 years this is £240 which might have bought me a few pleasures.

These pleasures are getting very thin on the ground as the council tax rises and the pension falls.

I was not consulted on the Olympics. I remember commenting there were plenty of Support the Games invitations, but not a single body willing to hear detractors.

If Ken thinks Londoners will gain £7 for every pound they put in, then I'll take the money now I am most unlikely to be here to receive it in 2012.

TED WILLIAMS
New Eltham