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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It was indeed.
Much food for thought and, at the risk of being accused of politicising everything (again); I'd be interested in knowing how many of the sternest critics of cuts had voted Tory. |
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By *drianukMan
over a year ago
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The programme was absurd.
Each family was rebated the amount they paid in Council Tax and expected to bu their services with it.
The amount was, I think, about £1,200.
Council Tax, however, only covers well under a quarter of the cost of council services. The rest comes from Whitehall through Income Tax, VAT, petrol tax, booze tax and the rest.
The families should have been rebated the whole amount for the programme to have made sense. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The programme was absurd.
Each family was rebated the amount they paid in Council Tax and expected to bu their services with it.
The amount was, I think, about £1,200.
Council Tax, however, only covers well under a quarter of the cost of council services. The rest comes from Whitehall through Income Tax, VAT, petrol tax, booze tax and the rest.
The families should have been rebated the whole amount for the programme to have made sense."
But, as I recall, they weren't excluded from ALL the services local authorities provide.
Specifically they still had access to all the emergency services + education - the biggest areas of local government expenditure. |
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By *drianukMan
over a year ago
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Even so, you could take only the services provided by Preston City Council - and the cost of the city council is six times the amount that you pay in Council Tax.
Furthermore, the programme arranged for cars and mattresses to be dumped in the street - presumably to add to the financial strain so as to make a political point.
Very misleading |
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"Even so, you could take only the services provided by Preston City Council - and the cost of the city council is six times the amount that you pay in Council Tax.
Furthermore, the programme arranged for cars and mattresses to be dumped in the street - presumably to add to the financial strain so as to make a political point.
Very misleading"
I'm sure scumbag neds who dump cars, mattresses and, of course, fridge freezers are only doing so to make a political point  |
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We watched it and thought it was a real eye opener, the fridges were left as this happens - the bbc left them - not scumbags! All the stuff they tried to recycle was returned as the skips were council run, the rubbish was emptied out of the wheelie bins and the bins taken, all the people who participated agreed that the council tax they pay is very fair as they didn;t realise how much all the services cost. Even the parks, leisure centres, libraries etc were out of bounds, very good telly as it was thought provoking both on a political level and a personal level to see how they ended up interacting. Z |
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"We watched it and thought it was a real eye opener, the fridges were left as this happens - the bbc left them - not scumbags! ........"
I think you've mised the point somewhat. The BBC could rely on scumbags dumping fridges or mattress in order to provide a challenge for the Street so the BBC did it.
They couldn't rely on all the street lights going out - to provide another challenge - so they took the lamps out.
They couldn't contact Banksy so they did the graffiti themselves.
All to see how the residents would cope in a council free zone. |
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