thought it was April Fools Day again when I read ‘Council debates lottery game plan’, Borehamwood & Elstree Times, July 1.
As someone who represents one of the poorest wards in the county, I feel encouraging people to gamble what little money they have on a council lottery is a sick joke.
This from a council which has some of the highest reserves in the country, or are members carrying out their peers in coalitions’ ideas to make the rich richer and the poor poorer? That’s what it looks like to me.
Councillor Ernie Butler
Labour/Cowley Hill ward
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