14 November (Part 2) - Kier SStarmer grants Baroness her wish
For several years our Council Tax has been increased by 2·99% annually. Below is an extract from this year’s bill…
The
Conservative Government set the 2·99% cap for the year 2019/2020 after setting
it at 1·99% two years earlier at the same time introducing a 2% levy to pay for Adults’ Social Care.
Bexley Council struggled to manage with the 3% cap and the Leader campaigned behind the scenes for it to be lifted.
Question from November 2023.
For some inexplicable reason
Councillor Cameron Smith thought that the cap
should be lifted too and you didn’t have to be Mystic Meg to forecast that a
Labour Government would do his bidding.
I forecast
it twice. Not particularly clever, 60 years of
Government watching has proved that is what Governments do, especially Labour ones.
Yesterday the SStarmer regime which promised not to raise taxes on the working
man, said it was going to set the cap at 5% for 2025/2026. Three times the
current rate of inflation and nearly twice what it was last year..
Nothing was said about the 2% Adult’s Social Care imposition so it looks as
though the 20% of voters who were seduced by Labour’s false promises are responsible for stuffing us all.
And how high will LowIQ Khan set his precept next year?