If my memory serves me correctly, I seem to recall the fact that the borough council has a large sum of money stored away in one way or another.

They always say its for a rainy day, and you should always have a bit ready in case of an emergency. Well guess what?

Its pouring down, and if this pandemic isn't the biggest emergency since the second world war I don't know what is. Get the loot back from wherever you have put it and start spending it!

Give us a brand new, bigger than before football stadium, and don't worry about planning permission, Boris says you'll get it no bother. Help everybody out by reducing council tax, that phony two months of not paying it (which was a total farce as most had already paid one of the months) didn't really help anybody in the long run, its still got be paid. Help get us a new ice-rink, soon, not years down the line.

Get the Aquadrome and the gym next to it done up. Spend some money like its going out of fashion, Boris is, so why can't you?

As I said, this is that rainy day, this is an emergency, we don't want one penny left in the investment kitty, forget saving money you can do that once the economy is back up and running in a year or two.

I know full well that the Conservative councillors will say I'm off my head, and that they can't possibly touch their precious reserves, but if not now when? Never? Get real, we are in the old proverbial up to our eyebrows and we need that money spent now.

Brian Simmonds, Belmont Heights, Hatch Warren. 

According to Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council's most recent summary of accounts, it had £125.8million in its reserves including £68.1million in investments.