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News and Comment May 2023

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29 May - Cash and Trash

As usual, some Councils were very slow to put their Council Tax figures on line this year preferring to hide them under a Post Code, Select your Address system which is not very friendly towards researchers, but with Southwark trailing the pack they are all available now.

Readers will be pleased to know that Bexley has retained its coveted position as the highest taxing Conservative borough in London (if one excludes Croydon which went bankrupt under Labour and the new administration was forced to impose a 15% rise). Bexley remains the 25th worst Council in London, it was 14th in 2002.

Bromley has dropped below, that is worse than, both Barnet and Ealing. I am not sure how this leap frogging occurs when the maximum percentage increases are all much the same. What was a £10 Band D advantage last year has gone the other way by about a pound.

Neglected binWhat do we get for a Band D tax of more than £2,000? Well not a decent refuse collection service that is for sure.

It is a month since Country Slop labelled the nearby paper bin ‘Contaminated’ and as usual all that does is cause an overflow because they cannot be bothered to put a lock on the broken lid. Then the wind distributes it down the street and into nearby gardens, mine included.

That story has been repeating every month or so for two years. It results in extra collection costs and presumably the loss of half a tonne of cardboard each time it happens.

The solution is obvious to anyone with a fully functioning brain but presumably that excludes Country Slop management and the recently departed Cabinet Member Peter Craske.

Maybe his replacement will be more proactive.
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