IF anything were needed to convince your readers to write

to the Boundary Committee, objecting in the strongest

terms to its proposal for the pan-Devon dictatorship that

would be 'unitary' Devon, it must be the incongruous

spectacle of Brian Greenslade and John Hart, political

dipoles of the existing Devon County Council, waving a

Republic of Devon flag atop a full-page advertisement, no

doubt replicated at council tax-payers' expense in every

local newspaper across Devon.

'Unitary Devon' is a political and democratic disaster-in-

waiting.

In effect, it is a takeover bid by Devon County Council:

monolithic, didactic, Exeter-centred, unapproachable,

unresponsive and expensive.

The cost of the change will be huge and will fall on

council taxpayers. 'Efficiency savings' – if any – will be

pocketed by central government. All past experience has

been that these reorganisations result in increases in local

taxation.

I urge any of your readers who have not already written to

the Boundary Committee, to do so before September 26.

Roger W Mathew

Willowby

Down Road

Tavistock