What an outrageous full meeting of Brighton and Hove City Council last Thursday - after hours of budget-cut speeches, the briefest of mentions that £51 million had been earmarked for capital expenditure over the next financial year. No itemised list of what exactly this money will be going on, no protests by the opposition - it was voted through with just sheepish grins on the councillors' faces as the chap next

to me in the public gallery wailed in disbelief.

Tomorrow, councillors will rush through the £1 billion PFI incinerator contract. Never mind the fact that we should be recycling as much waste as possible rather than just roasting it - it is no wonder environment minister Michael Meacher is appalled at our council's expensive, burn-everything attitude (The Argus, March 7). But who in the Tory or Labour groups cares about such large wads of cash going up in smoke when it's only local people's money anyway and when they can always agree to cut services - such as bed and breakfast funding for homeless people - to partially compensate for their irresponsibility?

Ian Hills

-UK Independence Party candidate for Moulsecoomb