What arrogance! What disarray! Harrow's Labour Party has not got a clue!

I am writing about Labour's attempts to tax Harrow's elderly, infirm and disabled residents simply for being elderly, infirm or disabled. ( 'Care charge proposal shelved until next year' Times, November 15).

In February, Labour wanted to tax those elderly, infirm and disabled residents who receive care in their homes.

In March, in the face of Conservative opposition, Labour's then social services spokesman promised to delay the introduction of their 'Band 5' Tax.

Under Labour's Band 5, some home care recipients could face an increase in charges of £261 per week. (The charge is currently pegged at £27 per week, but Labour wants to make it £288 per week).

Though inflation is only about two and a half per cent, Labour has been steadily increasing your Council Tax by over eight per cent a year!

Yet, even this isn't enough for Labour! If their Band 5 Tax is implemented, some of Harrow's most vulnerable face a 966 per cent tax rise!

At a recent Cabinet Meeting, Labour's new social services 'supremo', Margaret Davine, back-pedalled and claimed that she was still 'consulting' about Band 5's introduction.

Then Labour's education 'expert', Cllr Archie Foulds, angered Margaret Davine by announcing, without apparently consulting her, that Band 5 will 'not be introduced in this financial year'!

Labour's left hand does not know what the right hand is doing!

And having scared the old, the sick and the disabled this year with the prospect of this tax on their condition, Labour still arrogantly refuses to apologise for their high-handed ways.

Still, one good thing came out of this debate, and that is that Labour now has less than six months in office in which to lurch from crisis to crisis.

Cllr Adrian Knowles

Hatch End