I have today received an incomprehensible form.

It comes from East Sussex County Council and Brighton and Hove City Council and "invites" reactions to the proposed incinerator at Newhaven.

What are the councils doing with taxpayers' money? The cost of sending this out is one thing; the absurdity of the form is another. I'm alarmed on both counts.

The Plain English Society would have made such a form so simple I and everyone else could tick one of three boxes:

(c) I disapprove of the whole proposal; I do not want any incineration at Newhaven.

Instead, try and discover what the councils' two boxes mean:

(b) supporting the councils' decision.

Does this refer to modified proposals (today or tomorrow) or to the principle of building an incinerator, however modified?

The form states: "You may object to or support a proposed modification to the Second Deposit waste Local Plan or to the Councils' rejection of a recommendation for modification made by the Inspector" and it goes on, and on.

Is this the type of garbage for which we need an incinerator?

In which case, cut the garbage and cut the incinerator.

And these, our representatives, wonder why we don't queue up to vote for them.

-Larry Berryman, Bishopstone