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News and Comment February 2024

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18 February (Part 1) - We plan on ripping you off until you rebel

A week after Bexley Council announced that it would whack up bin taxes every year for as long as residents continued to pay I cancelled my Direct Debit. Yesterday I received the annual renewal letter from ‘The Garden Waste Team’ complete with idle threats about what might happen if I failed to cancel the service in the approved way.

This is to go to www.bexley.gov.uk/gws and press the Cancel button. Not wishing to offend against their rules I did exactly that only to find that the Cancellation facility is only available to those who have a Bexley Account. I haven’t got one so I sent a complaint instead.

I noted that my expiry date is 25th March even though I signed up for the Autumn 2015 start. Have we really had six months of strikes (and consequential extensions) since then?
£27

£27 in 2015.

£27

£70 in 2024.

The Bank of England says inflation has been 31% since 2015. The bin charge should be no more than £36.

Presumably it makes sense for three (for example) neighbours getting together and paying a maximum of £70·40+£48·80+£48·80 and in effect getting the bin charge down from £70 to £55.

 

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