No wonder the council tax keeps rising

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What exactly do they mean by percentage of councillors allowances..

" former leader of Sunderland council resigned from the party in disgust earlier this week after refusing to pay £215 - a three per cent levy on his £7,106 councillor's allowance - "

Is this they extra they can claim to run their office.. that is.. for staff and costs..

the same as the hundreds of thousands that MPs claim as expenses over and above the wages they have..


I read in a local rag that here West Dumbartonshire Council had such a pensions deficit for their employees that council tax would have to rise by 50% to cover the deficit..

Have to add that the whole of said council is now under scrutiny for all sorts of.. erm... dodgy/shady practices..

You ever get the feeling that Gubmt.. Central or local is inhabited by the best rogues and con merchants that if they had not been in gubmnt would be behind bars now...............

Who needs criminals when you've got politicians?

And ................. where's the opposition?

I agree

And the dust cart won't even come up our lane as there are only 3 houses.
We have to take the rubbish down to the main road.
Gives you a real warm feeling dunnit?!gggrrr

There was a time, Maggs, when our dustbinmen would shout "GATES" all the way down the street so that people dashed outside and unbolted their gates to enable the dustbinmen to enter the yard to collect the bins.

If the gates were locked, very often they would climb over and unbolt them themselves.

You certainly didn't have to move them from, nor back, to your yard.

I bet that seems like the dim and distant past now doesn't it?
Can't exactly call it progress can we?