SIR – I agree with those polled by the Telegraph & Argus who said there are far too many councillors on Bradford Council (T&A, June 24).
Compare the 90 councillors in Bradford with the 120 members of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, representing a country the size of Wales. There are far too many politicians in the UK. In addition to the 650 MPs in the House of Commons and 707 peers in the House of Lords, there are 19,657 councillors throughout the UK, 129 members of the Scottish Parliament, 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly and 60 members of the Welsh Assembly. The bill for this vast army of politicians must be absolutely enormous and it’s the taxpayer who pays for it all.
If cuts in public expenditure need to be made, as we are told they must, why not start by slashing the number of politicians, most of whom are a complete waste of space anyway?
Alan O’Day Scott, Idlecroft Road, Bradford
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