PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[KS55]

That's not really true.

The VAO would take into account a range of features and amenities including developments such as patios and paved driveways to inform council tax banding decisions and this applied all over the UK. The Tories instructed the VAO to end this work as part of their agenda to keep council tax artificially low. 15 years later councils are practically insolvent, the public services for which they are responsible are in dire straits and they have been stripped of capacity to anything that may support economic development or improve public services.

The idea that patios and built in wardrobes would have been subject to a tax.

In contrast, the economy grew in every year that Brown was Chancellor, public satisfaction with the NHS was at record levels, roads weren't full of potholes, new schools had been built, the armed forces retained war fighting capacity. And no councils were going bust. A terrible chancellor wouldn't have delivered any of these things.

Brown didn’t deliver NHS, Roads, schools, armed forces, potholes.
Much of the LA problems derive from extra curricular activity. Check out Brum.
On local taxes, the key idea was a value percentage tax iirc, not just bandings.
I’ll check back.

 

[KS55]

That's not really true.

The VAO would take into account a range of features and amenities including developments such as patios and paved driveways to inform council tax banding decisions and this applied all over the UK. The Tories instructed the VAO to end this work as part of their agenda to keep council tax artificially low. 15 years later councils are practically insolvent, the public services for which they are responsible are in dire straits and they have been stripped of capacity to anything that may support economic development or improve public services.

The idea that patios and built in wardrobes would have been subject to a tax.

In contrast, the economy grew in every year that Brown was Chancellor, public satisfaction with the NHS was at record levels, roads weren't full of potholes, new schools had been built, the armed forces retained war fighting capacity. And no councils were going bust. A terrible chancellor wouldn't have delivered any of these things.

What, precisely, is not true?

 

[invisibleandalone]

Gordon Brown was apt to levy taxes without too much thought about their effect in the real world. I remember he did an auction of bandwidth to maximise the tax take from mobiles. That put our phone industry back several years because the tax was levied before the companies had made a penny and operators were hesitant. Similarly, he planned a massive effort to increase the take from council tax by levying tax on a whole range of household features such as patios, built in wardrobes, a good view (seriously, I am not making this up). He engaged a giant army of assessors in Scotland (the rest of the country to follow) but Labour lost the election before it took effect.
He did a good job in the world financial crisis, but he was otherwise a terrible chancellor.

He also done a last minute u-turn on buying property with your pension. That decision completely fucked me and my family.

 

[BongoBlue]

Annabelle Tiffin. Sounds like a cross between a porn star and a chocolate bar.

 

[old blue]

I thought Annabel Tiffin was a porn star. Must be in the wrong thread -:)

Another z list journo jumping on the attack Mansour bandwagon. The man has been great for City and Manchester, the end.

If we are going to start calling out Abu Dhabi then we need to call out all the 152 countries before them.

Any news today re the premier league moral crusaders?

You are confusing her with Annabel Biffin.

 

[MadchesterCity]

So you could say he's the master of puppets...I'll get me coat!

Or the pastor for muppets

 

[nmc]

That's not really true.

The VAO would take into account a range of features and amenities including developments such as patios and paved driveways to inform council tax banding decisions and this applied all over the UK. The Tories instructed the VAO to end this work as part of their agenda to keep council tax artificially low. 15 years later councils are practically insolvent, the public services for which they are responsible are in dire straits and they have been stripped of capacity to anything that may support economic development or improve public services.

The idea that patios and built in wardrobes would have been subject to a tax.

In contrast, the economy grew in every year that Brown was Chancellor, public satisfaction with the NHS was at record levels, roads weren't full of potholes, new schools had been built, the armed forces retained war fighting capacity. And no councils were going bust. A terrible chancellor wouldn't have delivered any of these things.

And it was Brown who oversaw the creation of the monetary policy committee to independently fix interest rates - a move vehemently opposed by the opposition, but a very wise move.

 

[wolviedinho]

You are confusing her with Annabel Biffin.

Or

Annabel Muffin -:)

 

[cheekybids]

Would she have asked the question if our owners were from America, where the Mango Mussolini recently tried to steal an election, kill the elected Leader of the House, execute his own Vice President, overthrow the government, all in a "democracy" where shopping at Walmart with an AK47 slung over your shopping trolley handle is perfectly normal & legal?

Maybe it’s down to executions, oops below the US still….

Executions Around the World

The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information about capital punishment.…

deathpenaltyinfo.org

 

[cheekybids]

I get that, but discrediting a journalist because her husband is a wrong’un seems a bit OTT.

Discrediting an arena in Mcr because Sheik Mansour comes from Abu Dhabi is also OTT. I think that’s the point.