JAMES Alexander – gone at last! That is the best piece of news I have read for some time. I believe he has not acted to alleviate the suffering of those living on the poverty line in York. In fact, In recent years, council tax changes have caused most on low incomes to be poorer.

Other councils, even Tory councils, have not put this burden on already hard-pressed families struggling to ‘‘eat or heat’’.

A man not big enough to admit his own mistakes. Good riddance.

Billy Holland, The Groves, York.