Our taxes will be cut by another 3% next year in news which has been announced by our Council in typically flamboyant fashion, with a video shot by a local Performing Arts school (Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College (EHWLC))
Announcing the cut the soon to be departing Council Leader Stephen Greenhalgh spake thus:
“In these tough economic times we want to free residents from the burden of excessive taxation. This innovative YouTube clip takes a light-hearted look on a very serious message. We are saying loud and clear that it is possible to consistently cut tax and council debt while improving frontline services. We are also proud to be climbing the league table of low tax boroughs and look set to break into the top three nationwide with our biggest council tax cut yet.”
It's difficult to argue with tax cuts in these economic times, and the PR package was brilliantly executed with the story leading the news on BBC London last night. But a lot of the people the BBC interviewed seemed to be doubtful about the wisdom of cutting taxes if it led to service cuts too, which has certainly also been the case in recent times.
So enjoy the extra £30 quid or so you wont now be paying out in council tax next year - but bear in mind where it might be coming from...
So it's difficult to argue with tax cuts but we should bear in mind the the views of people who doubt their wisdom. Well, which is it?
ReplyDeleteOh hurrah. Those with the money not to have to rely on the public services slashed by H&F local authority will have the comfort of another £30 in their pockets (5-10 posh coffees whilst pushing Tarquin and Jocasta to private nursery). More votes from the rich for the Tories and screw the poor, especially those on Council Tax Benefit.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I'd rather pay the £30.
ReplyDeleteMake it TWO lots of £30, and maybe we can look after the old, sick, vulnerable, poor, and young properly in this borough.
Idiots.
Yep I agree with Social Conscience and Lee above. I'd rather have a borough to be proud of than that extra 30 quid. Rather have social care, nurseries, libraries and after school care, rather have decent social housing too. And my pockets are pretty shallow but even so...
ReplyDeleteI agree with Lee et al above... which is a little surprising for me considering I thought I was a tax-cutting Tory!
ReplyDeleteIf it had been a £30 increase you would all be moaning about that instead. What a bunch of absolute plonkers.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the good writeup. It in fact was a amusement account it. Look advanced to far added agreeable from you! By the way, how could we communicate?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, you're a tool.
ReplyDeleteDeep pockets and others are right. It's disguting the services that are being cut just to give money to people who, for the most part, aren't losing their services. And those who are, well, £30 will be a drop in the ocean compared to what they've lost.
I've never been so disgusted by a stupid, tiny tax cut but this is ill-timed and contemptuous, malicious and cynical in the extreme. Dirty.
From one anonymous to another! Tool, fool or plonker, it's sour grapes if you don't like a tax cut.
ReplyDeleteI wish Tiffany would shut up and go away.
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