“Jim, thanks for not pulling me down. I say what is the truth (at least for me), I worked for the local Constabulary for so many years. Lots of money could be saved in so many ways, but it's all so PC nowadays that I just gave up bothering to bang my head against a brick wall!”

“Apologies to 'Retired', my post did not include your comment. It appears that there are 4 people with an education making an input to this article now!”

“Why do some people hate ¿Council¿ workers? Is it because they perceive them as having an easy ride while the rest of the country suffers the recession alone? You know the staff I¿m talking about ¿ the ones recently organising gritting our roads round the clock and providing essential services to the elderly?? Some comments on here serve no more useful person than show the uninformed ignorance of the people who wrote them. Council workers have families and mortgages too - JUST LIKE YOU!! Believe it or not, I doubt they enter local government to sit around drinking tea and chatting any more than they do for the menial wages ... there was always an, as it turns out, incorrect perception that your job was safe as a Council worker. Now that we can all see that¿s not true, cut them a bit of slack. Rather than sickly enjoying the fact that some of our very hard working public servants may be made redundant, be concerned that cuts in YOUR local government mean an attack on YOUR local infrastructure one way or another. You¿ll be the same people moaning about library closures and potholes in 6 months time. Shame on you all.”

“Has anybody else noticed that the only two people who can string a sentence together into something legible without including a selection of quite frankly ridiculous spelling errors, are Ken Barlow and Lynn (although I'd expect nothing less from Lynn). I don't have enough relevant experience or knowledge to make a useful point on this article, but we seem to be reading intelligent, grammatically correct and meaningful arguments from Ken and then irrelevant moronic insults as replies.

Just be glad Lynn's arguing the case for you lot, otherwise I'd suggest you were commenting from the railing outside the job centre on your benefit-funded iPhone whilst smoking roll-ups.

No offence.”

“Why does everyone hate ¿Council¿ workers? Is it because they perceive them as having an easy ride while the rest of the country suffers the recession alone? You know -those rotten good for nothings ¿ the ones recently gritting roads round the clock and providing essential services to the elderly?? Ignorance, but some of you are too stupid to understand that. Council workers have families and mortgages too - JUST LIKE YOU!! Believe it or not, I doubt they enter local government to sit around doing nothing any more than they do for the menial wages in many cases ... there was always an, as it turns out, incorrect perception that your job was safe as a Council worker. Now that we can all see that¿s not true, cut them a bit of slack. Rather than sickly enjoying the fact that some of our public servants may be made redundant, be concerned that cuts in YOUR local government mean an attack on YOUR local infrastructure one way or another. You¿ll be the same people moaning about library closures and potholes in 6 months time. Shame on you all.”