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My local (Labour, not that it really matters) council has taken pride in not raising council tax for the last 5+ years. Yet inflation has pushed up wages and ex
by yardstick 8y ago
My local (Labour, not that it really matters) council has taken pride in not raising council tax for the last 5+ years. Yet inflation has pushed up wages and expenses and somehow they expect to maintain the same quality of local government. Impossible!
- raesene9 8y agoplus of course the ongoing reductions in central funding for local authorities https://www.local.gov.uk/about/news/council-funding-be-further-cut-half-over-next-two-years-lga-warns https://www.local.gov.uk/about/news/council-funding-be-furth...
- matthewmacleod 8y agoThat's a valid objection, though I think council tax is a particularly tricky issue to deal with in the UK – it's a highly regressive tax, but reform is difficult to achieve while the people who would be most affected by a proper reform would be Conservative voters.