On naughty step...

It seems Mr Coster enjoys putting words into people’s mouths, and implying they are actually saying something entirely different – in my case, asking council taxpayers of Bognor Regis to pay twice for free parking.

My question would be: where does he expect the money to come from?

After all, there is no such thing as a ‘free lunch’.

As much as it pains me to say it, someone has to pay.

It seems strange no-one in Littlehampton has campaigned about having to pay for the free parking scheme there. In short, the scheme works for everybody.

In Bognor Regis, a two-hour visit, once a week, for a year in the cheapest car park at Fitzleet, would cost £15.60.

The estimated 17,000 residents of the four central wards would be paying £6.82 per year for two hours’ free parking. Less than half of the cost required to park now.

Mr Coster continuously talks about candidates and councillors who live outside the wards not knowing or caring about Bognor Regis.

However, as a resident of Middleton on Sea, he is allowed an opinion.

That is his right, just as it is everyone else’s.

I lived in the Hotham ward for several years before moving to Felpham, and I know the area very well as I am involved with Predators Football Club and Aldwick Cricket Club, both of whom are based in the ward.

I fulfil all the required criteria to stand in the ward of Hotham, as does Mr Coster. However, he would seem to want to elect himself as the Voice of the People, rather than let the voting public do it!

Moving on, I’ve looked at the Civic Society website today, and read with some incredulity the following quotation:

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