Some good news at last! Our thanks are due to Councillor Jayne Bennett for the courageous stand she has taken over the obscene increase in councillors' allowances (The Argus, November 28).

At a time when the council has spent way over its budget yet again and pensioners and those living on fixed incomes are, to quote Denis Healey, being squeezed until the pips squeak, such an increase could hardly be more insulting.

Councillors have wasted an opportunity to show concern for those who elected them.

In future, they should not be allowed to vote on their own remuneration and should only be given increases in line with that given to pensioners.

Then we would really know they were not in it for the money. Above inflation council tax rises have got to stop.

-Alan Nunn, Hove