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[url= http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/4833479.No_rise_in_council_tax_____but_jobs_to_go/ ]Our local council isn't increasing Council tax next year.[/url]

Thank goodness, because a 5% rise would have cost me 17p a day! I'm sure the roads will grit themselves and the kids can just wear their coats inside and share pencils.


 
Posted : 06/01/2010 7:46 pm
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All in favour of efficiency, however for our local authority that seems to be reducing front line workers but keeping all the managers.

I think public sector employess do, in the main, a brilliant job but I can see why the paying public lose their gruntles.


 
Posted : 06/01/2010 7:49 pm
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Posted : 06/01/2010 7:50 pm
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I'd vote for him.


 
Posted : 06/01/2010 7:54 pm
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The bin service has been cut by 75% and the world hasn't ended. A good model for all other council 'services'.


 
Posted : 06/01/2010 7:55 pm
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Council tax has been frozen here in Edinburgh for the last two years, which is great for me living on my own as I save a lot of money, but you can see the cracks as primary schools have closed, and there's been a dispute with the bin men (still ongoing as far as I know). The roads in the city are in an atrocious condition too, but I suspect this is more to do with the ****ing trams sucking up that cash pot more than anything...


 
Posted : 06/01/2010 8:21 pm