I WRITE in reference to Crawley Borough Council’s “fundraising” party, which cost taxpayers more than £7,000, but only generated £2,671 (The Argus, April 28).

What an extraordinary waste of public money on an unnecessary extravagance.

£1,202 on flowers for a mayor’s ball?

Who do these public (I repeat, public) officials think they are?

Perhaps they should try working in the real world, in a private sector which supports such needless expenditures.

Then again, who would employ such people to frivolously waste their employer’s money?

Paul Johnston, Middleton Avenue, Hove