In the context of the post I have just made, showing that Reform voters are very keen to cut state spending, it is really quite ironic to note that The Guardian is reporting this today:
Reform-led Worcestershire county council is likely to issue England's largest council tax rise this April after it was given special permission by the government to increase it by up to 9%.
Worcestershire is one of a handful of authorities whose requests to be allowed to increase local rates above the standard 5% cap from April have been accepted by ministers.
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Reform know how to appeal to the gullible.
We need to remind our Reform voting friends of the regressive nature of council tax.
Council tax banding has an upper threshold – the rich are spared from paying a proportionate share.
Reform aside – an emergency council tax rise is *clearly* not the solution. Labour really should have reversed cuts to council funding very early on. It would have been a very obvious way to improve people’s lives. Now that they are due for a good hiding in May, I can’t see this happening.
Jack
Do you know what councils spend their money on?
– Social care for the very vulnerable
– Child protection
– Education, and especially, special needs.
Now, which of them do you want to cut and why?
Please tell, and explain how doing so will make the world a better place.
In detail please as you have obviously thought about this.
Richard
Richard, you have misunderstood my position! I don’t want cuts at all. I want councils well funded.
What I’m saying is that Labour should have reversed central government funding cuts when it had the chance.
Oh..
That was not clear.
Sorry
He said “reversed cuts” ….I understood him to mean give more money to local authorities..???
Doesn’t Jack’s post say Labour should have reversed cuts to council funding, meaning there would be more rater than less funding available for essential services?
Yes
I got it wrong. I havd apologised.
Truth – if ever it was needed – that with Reform, you get what you unthinkingly ‘bay’ for.
Suckers.
And as for ‘cutting waste’ – how long before they DO do that, and you have to take your own bin down to the dump? I can see it happening!
I’m pretty sure at this point that Reform is a managed revolutionary force. A society with this level of inequality can not be sustained, and the people in charge know it. Rather than addressing inequality, they are instead funding parties like Reform to channel the discontent. It’s one big Psyop, with grifters jumping on board to line their own pockets. I also think it’s the last throw of the dice for the collapsing neoliberal establishment. 40 years is all you get between a new political system and its collapse. Reform will be the last chance they have to smash and grab our economy before they have to slink back to their caves ready to capture the next government.