Despite a £3 million enquiry lasting four years the Government has quietly dropped plans to replace council tax with a fairer local tax system. The report concluded that council tax was not fit for purpose and had some fairly modest proposals to tackle some of the unfairness. But it now seems even this was too much for ministers.  

I remember the poll tax fury, the Labour party at that time were proposing ‘fair rates’ to replace the poll tax, well there’s nothing fair about the way that council tax has increased since 1997!!! 

People are angry, they are angry at being conned by New Labour and they are angry at paying ever-increasing sums into government black-holes. The public in this country have paid £3M to find a better way of paying for local services and the government have ignored the findings.This is a government that has complete contempt for the ordinary hard-working souls of this country, I’ve lost count of how many people I meet who want leave for Cyprus, Australia, Canada, Malta or Spain!!  

Even my mum (who’s fairly non-political) has said “Labour have wrecked this country haven’t they?”