NEXT year, 2011, will be the year of the silly 10-year census.

Would it not be better to cancel it, what with all these cuts in spending?

Why waste millions of pounds on such a nonsense as this, when a true head count is implausible because of all the illegals in our country.

The powers-that-be know all about we genuine British citizens, because of the electoral roll, updated every two years, so we don’t really need to fill in a census form.

They know who you are, where you live, who with, what relationship to one another, your religion, origin, what sort of house you live in, and how many rooms you have. So if, like me, you have lived at the same address since Noah built his ark, the census seems pointless.

In 2001 thousands put Jedi for religion – though I have never come across their place of worship; perhaps it’s on another planet.

There were pages and pages of stupid questions in 2001, which had nothing to do with a head count. Do they really want to know what tea or coffee you will be drinking, what toothpaste you will be using or how many warts or boils you have?

Anyway, with all the redundancies in the public sector there won’t be anyone to deliver the forms or sift through them when returned.

If you are unfortunate to be handed a census form, why not just chuck it in your nice blue wheelie bin?

MICHAEL CLARKE, Lewell Avenue, Old Marston, Oxford