RECENTLY in Wirral, there were two homes for sale:- a £70,000 flat and a £1.3m house.

Current council tax on the flat is £1823.23 and on the house (which is 18.57 times pricier than the flat) is £3646.46 which is just twice the cost.

I am certainly not a socialist, but I believe that council tax should be much more closely related to house prices – if this were to happen then the extra income would provide "hard up"

councils to restore all the services that have been abandoned, and would stabilise housing prices.

Tony Rhodes by email