THE suggestion that we should celebrate the ‘freezing’ of the council tax in Malvern Hills is perhaps the biggest con trick pulled off by this Tory administration so far – and that is saying something.

Read the small print and you will find that increasingly you are being charged separately and additionally for many services that have traditionally been covered by your council tax charge.

In short, you are paying twice over for the same service.

At the same time, Malvern Hills District Council are desperately trying to offload service provision to the town and parish councils; they have no intention of reducing the council tax charge that you pay for providing a less comprehensive service, but the towns and parish councils may be forced to increase their charges if they choose to take on such services.

Again, you end up paying twice over.

You really couldn’t make it up.

It is time that this Tory administration was shown the door.

Julian D Roskams

Democratic group

Malvern Hills District Council