WHAT is the point of having council cabinet members with a large team working for each of them, covering every aspect of council business, who then renounce responsibility when any important decision has to be made by employing expensive outside consultants to do their jobs for them.

The latest being out-sourcing of fact- finding for the congestion commission?

Instead of doing the work themselves and making important decisions, they prefer to hide behind the skirts of these consultants so that if things go wrong they can blame anyone but themselves.

This full-time paid cabinet system has been an expensive failure, doing much harm to our city, and should be scrapped immediately.

Geoff Robb, Hunters Close, Dunnington, York.