WITH local elections looming it is worth asking ourselves how and why we will vote if, that is, we do vote!

If any party is to be evaluated by its actual, rather than merely expressed, concern about fairness in application of policies then how on earth can the ordinary voter choose any one of the circuses soon erecting their big tops?

When I recently raised the issue of unequal allocation of council tax by which the affluent got a better deal than the less-affluent the councillors expressed amazement and didn't know the inequality was in operation! When it was brought to their attention they were not very outraged.

It is therefore not surprising there are distinct links between the decline in voter partipation and the waning of democratic enthusiasm. What has become of the image for the council work as "a task that matters?"

Why should one get excited, or maybe even concerned any longer, about choosing between parties If they are all equally democratically incompetent in crucial issues?

This serious lacuna of equality of application of local taxes defies justice, efficacy and political morality and the total absence of any party to mount objections to its continuance indicates insipid, even anti-communal, values and denies them the credit for any potential restoration of their alleged valid and equal social administration which is so often flaunted by civic leaders in the BFP!

Is it surprising that voters are becoming disillusioned?

Have the parties considered the potential consequences?

Bill Purdie West Street Marlow