ON the vexed topic of toilet closures may I suggest that all the councillors who voted in favour of the closures should be subject to a test.

At their next meeting every councillor should consume two or three cups of tea or coffee or hot chocolate or whatever other beverage they prefer at the beginning of their council business.

Thus their physical state would shortly resemble that of the average person who needs a public toilet in Poole. The doors of the council chamber should be locked with no access to any toilet facilities for three or four hours.

BBC South or Meridian TV could be invited to film across that time together with sound recordings of the proceedings.

I suggest that selected highlights should then be shown on primetime television. I suspect viewing figures could easily break records. Shown on the internet such a feature would surely, to use the current jargon, ‘go viral’. No similar experiment has, to my knowledge, ever been conducted anywhere in the world.

Particular camera attention should focus on Cllr John Rampton, Portfolio Holder for the Environment and Consumer Protection, and the councillor for the Creekmoor ward, Borough of Poole, whose recent letter was published defending council policy but in the view of many ‘defending the indefensible’.

Cllr Rampton clearly possesses near superhuman powers of bowel control so he would surely relish the challenge!

ALAN BENNETT

Hawk Close, Colehill

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