Shocker - HB&B correct for a change !!!!

[Cadiz Seagull]

Council tax on a 2 bedroom house in the centre of town here is a massive 6 euros a month.

Just thought I'd mention it, like.

 

[Bisto]

As a footnote, I'm old enough to remember the famous Tory POLL TAX, yes the one most Tories try to forget now. At the time I was married with 2 kids in a 2 bed terrace house with a rateable value of about £220 per annum.
Under the new tax,the next year, my wife and I were expected to find £660 per year between us, yes thats a three times increase. After the riots and civil disobedience they then said they would grant transitional support......we had about £100 knocked off each.

Funny how different some situations are the Poll Tax actually gave a reduction for my wife and I at the time and I regretted the u-turn!

But it is tough times fuel and food is on the up all the time (B Gas raising prices again!!) most of us suffered pay cuts or freezes and spiraling living costs. I do not know the accounts of B&H but it would be interesting if there staff still got pay rises and bonuses over the last 3 years and still feel justified in raising the tax to the majority

 

[DIRK STEELE]

How on earth can the Greens expect people ( a lot of whom are already struggling ) to pay a wooping 3.5% extra !!!! Time to vote them out ASAP

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9131527.Council_tax_in_Brighton_and_Hove_to_rise_by_3_5_/

Oh yeh.. and of course all the other political parties have never raised council tax in the past either... you must be green.

 

[dingodan]

I note from that he was a supporter of the individual against the state except when individuals were demanding equality before the law when he all of a sudden became a supporter of "States Rights" (i.e the Deep South version of Apartheid).

You misunderstand. In the US, being for "States rights" is not about the power of the state, it is about local decision making over federal decision making, the states over the federal government.

 

[Dandyman]

You misunderstand. In the US, being for "States rights" is not about the power of the state, it is about local decision making over federal decision making, the states over the federal government.

Bollocks - it's was a device states in the south tried to use to block equal rights for African-Americans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States'_rights

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Council tax is already much LOWER in Brighton & Hove than out here in my bit of Lewes. For a Band D property here, you pay £1,596.69 a year. In parts of the district, it's as high as £1,690.74.

In Brighton you pay £1,482.40. Even with a 3.5% hike, it'll only be £1,534.

 

[dingodan]

Bollocks - it's was a device states in the south tried to use to block equal rights for African-Americans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States'_rights

Yes because they were arguing that the Federal Government should not dictate to the states. You still misunderstand. The states are about the size of a small country and the Constitution was designed so that the states be largely autonomous, with the Federal government playing a limited role in facilitating commerce etc.

 

[GT49er]

As a footnote, I'm old enough to remember the famous Tory POLL TAX, yes the one most Tories try to forget now. At the time I was married with 2 kids in a 2 bed terrace house with a rateable value of about £220 per annum.
Under the new tax,the next year, my wife and I were expected to find £660 per year between us, yes thats a three times increase. After the riots and civil disobedience they then said they would grant transitional support......we had about £100 knocked off each.

Yep, that was pretty much how I remember it for me too. Poll tax bad, Council Tax not quite as bad, but nearly......

Bring back the rates! If you can aford to live in a fukcing mansion you can afford to pay a lot!

 

[Albumen]

Good. The Tories are cutting the f*** out of public services so someones got to pay for it.