SIR – The recent decision to spend £3,500 on an electrical point at the Ian Clough car park in Baildon so that drivers of eco-cars can ‘fill up’ prompts the feeling that a far better idea would have been an electrical point into which these council do-gooders could plug their bodies to shock themselves into the real world.
We are told that here are only seven of these cars registered in the entire Bradford area, which somehow justifies this cost – plus a further £10,500 from central government funds.
Never mind, in the unlikely event of there being a huge demand for this freebie for a chosen few, the extra burden on our hard-pressed national grid can no doubt be offset by the increasing number of pensioners who now cannot afford to switch on the heating in their own homes.
No doubt they will have welcomed this latest use of taxpayers’ money as they shiver and flirt with hypothermia because of all this global warming.
Mel and Olwen Vasey, Wharton Square, Baildon
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