By even considering to award the East Riding Council chief executive yet more money to this overpaid job, of more than £3,000 per week for keeping the books, is in my and many more people’s minds rather excessive, and is driven by just one cardinal sin, greed.

(And don’t give me the monkey and nuts joke).

For the leader of the council to state that the money did not come from the Council Tax - whoopee, the council brought the winning ticket on the lottery.

At least that’s better than investing it in a bank in Iceland!

Seriously, though what is a council doing having all this spare cash and yet pleading poverty in an attempt to justify even ever more blood money increases?

And here is me trying for two years off-and-on, to get a No Cycling Board erected at Deira Court.

If people were more considerate we wouldn’t need one!

Yes I know what their answer will be: ‘We can't afford it’.

P G Mason

Deira Court

Driffield