GETTING to the bottom of the ‘cash to pee’ problem, it appears that Brighton and Hove City Council has lost control of its spending if it cannot provide free toilets.

Greece has a similar issue at the moment because it lost sight of what should be done.

The council has given employees a wage rise (through the ‘living wage’ campaign, and do you remember the ‘equal jobs’ fiasco), given away astonishing amounts of money to departing executives.

It has spent money on nice sign written loo vans against a backdrop (The Argus, June 18) of council employees now living on average to 80 years old.

So, if employees retire at 60 having worked all their life for the council, they will be paid a pension for a time equivalent to half their working life, for which they pay very little.

Not surprisingly the council is running out of money and the situation is not going to improve in the long term.

As the council is treating ratepayers like animals, which we are, perhaps areas of the town could be now be designated for ‘public convenience’, for example Hove Lawns opposite the council offices.

I am quite willing to take on the chief executive’s role for, err £269,000/10, say £26,900 per year on a fixed year contract with no pension, so forgoing my pay-off bonus if this helps the council.

I will be very efficient and meetings will be short as my first act would be to remove toilets from all council offices so ‘business’ will be done elsewhere.

J. Holmes, Coombe Rise, Saltdean