Why do they think we’re much better off than them?
GREETINGS my long-suffering voters. Tell me this if you will. If, as we are repeatedly told, money is very tight at the moment why are councils asking residents to stump up ever more money. What makes them think that tax-payers are better off than they are?
An idiot in a hurry could see that families are suffering financial hardship every bit as much as the councils representing them. (I don’t see any councillors using food banks.)
We have already been informed we must pay an additional sum on top of the property tax agreed to have our garden waste collected.
It’s only just kicked in and Cheshire East are claiming the charge is not enough.
Remember property tax never goes down so any increase added today will be the baseline for every year that follows.
Macclesfield Town Council went one better deciding this to be the perfect time to ask tax payers to stump up £1.5m over 30 years for a new pavilion in South Park with absolutely no costings or cash-flow forecasts whatsoever (present that to Nat West Bank and you would be out on your ear before you could say ‘clueless.’)
Wilmslow Town Council, not wishing to be left out of this decided they would like an increase in their town precept of
100% (nice work if you can get it) included in their presentation is £30k to pay for a ‘volunteer’ co-ordinator.
How long do you think it will be before the appointed volunteer co-ordinator needs a paid assistant?
Clearly, this is not a council that understands irony.
As for Cheshire East their great plan is to spend £480K on consultants to help improve their operations.
Can I suggest that they present a fully costed plan with a fixed ceiling from the get-go and maybe give the ‘consultants’ a couple of small projects before we get in to this and discover they are nowhere near as good as it says on the tin.