HAPPY New Year from Councillor Boden! The leader of our gloriously run Labour council has come up with what must be his dream scheme.

His idea is to dictate people's lives as, according to the Bury Times (Jan 5) "the days when you can drive whenever and wherever you wish have gone". And Coun Boden now wants us to pay for the privilege of it!

Fantastic, I cannot wait for his next brainwave. If he wants to tax freedom of movement then what next? Freedom of speech? I had better stop now it might be costing me . . .

NEIL GREENHALGH,

Scobell Street,

Tottington.