THANKS to all those readers who have sent in forms backing my campaign to scrap our present council system and create one cost-effective unitary authority.

I know I have loads of backing for this and I have also put the campaign in the column I write for our free sister paper, the South Bucks Star.

The response, although small in consultation terms, has been surprisingly good when a) you consider the topic is councils and b) we are asking people to post in the forms to us in the old-fashioned way.

I’ll give you a full update in due course but, in the meantime, can those who haven’t sent in their forms please do so?

The idea is to create a much simpler, more cost-effective and less confusing system. They can either scrap all the present district councils and have an all-singing all-dancing county council. Or they can scrap the county and give the districts more power.

Either way, there will ultimately be a bucket-load of cash to be saved.

One estimate, a few years ago, was that this amalgamation could cut costs by around £35million a year in Bucks.

However, not all feedback has been as good. Last week, I appealed for motorists who had suffered prangs in the bus lane in High Wycombe to contact me.

No one did, so it must only be me who finds the lane desperately dangerous.

I’ll give it one more week and then give up. Email me at scohen@london.newsquest. co.uk or ring 01494 755079.