AFTER reading of the success of the Rubbish Party (May 6), I think that it is high time we had a ‘Convenient Party’ in Poole.

If one person is prepared to stand in each ward in Poole, I am confident the party would secure enough seats to make a difference on Poole council.

The party’s aim would be to make life more convenient for Poole’s residents and visitors. The party’s first aims would be public toilets and car parks.

Anyone paying council tax in Poole would get free parking and anyone else would pay 50p per hour.

So far as the toilets are concerned, they can be provided free for travellers on almost a moment’s notice, presumably on a Health and Safety basis, but not for the rest of us.

According to Cllr Eades (March 2) Poole council has an accrued balance of £583,000, less £7,000 spent, to ‘benefit communities’. What better benefit could there be but to have public toilets and reasonably priced car parks.

Your readers could well come up with some further suggestions which the Convenient Party can include in its aims.

Lest anyone thinks that this is a frivolous contribution from me, it is not. I have long thought that it is time that party politics were taken out of local government. It is time for local government to be for us residents which it is clearly not so at the present time in Poole.

BARRIE CORBIN

Lytchett Drive, Broadstone

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