Don’t you really feel sorry for our hard-done-by councillors?

My heart goes out to them – they must really be suffering as much as the rest of us.

I would like to give them all my wages and would willingly go back to the workhouse days for them.

I cannot wait for the next elections so I can make my mark on the right squire’s box and tip my hat and bow my head.

It must be so hard for some of them to only get £1,700 in child allowance. I’m sure the rest of us peasants (oh, citizens) would love to give them thousands more.

Why don’t they move into the Royal Pavilion? Then they could all wave to us as we bow to them and give them all our money.

Mr A Gumbrill, Chapel Mews, Hove