Dear Editor
Is it possible for the local Conservative-run Borough Council to come up with any more bizarre collaboration plans with other Councils than they have thus far? They abandoned a sensible co-operation with neighbouring Lowestoft because of petty squabbles with their Tory counterparts at Waveney District - when we on the Labour side could actually see the merit of working with our immediate neighbours.Then they piled instead into failed negotiations with North Norfolk trying to create a big unitary council running all the way round the coast from Hunstanton to Hopton. That was nicknamed the "Nut cracker", lacked sensible geography and was soon consigned to the dustbin of history. Then last year the local MP Brandon Lewis and local businessman John Fuller hatched the plot to completely "merge" the South Norfolk and Great Yarmouth Borough Councils . The geography of that one was also pretty bizarre and when the figures for savings didn't add up either even their own Councillors took fright. Guess what - their latest idea is even nuttier. They now want to investigate a 3-way sharing of Council Managers with Breckland District in the west of the County and South Holland District in Lincolnshire. I'd have more faith in a link-up with the Holland across the water.
Michael Castle
Borough Councillor, Yarmouth Central & Northgate
