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The UK’s cheapest Council Tax is in Wandsorth, London, where a band D property will pay approximately £969 a year. The next cheapest is in Westminster at £975.
After that it is Shetland Isles at £1,261.
Nottingham is £2,530
Council Tax is a tax for the poorest.
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@David__Osland At what point do the Green Party realise you CANNOT dictate what a private company pays their employees. If you try, no company will operate in the UK.
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Under the Greens' 10:1 pay ratio policy, bosses could still pay themselves £1m a year by putting everyone else on £100k. Sounds fair enough to me.
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@_InfoGram_ Some of the largest & most productive oil & gas fields in the world are in Alaska, USA.
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@robprogressive For pot holes, Vehicle Excise Duty brings in £9 billion annually. Council Tax should go no where near fixing pit holes as VED should be used solely for all road repair & maintenance.
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Council tax has hit £5,031 in some parts of the UK
And it’s gone up every single year for 25 years
Yet now we sort our own rubbish
Bin collections are reduced
There are F*cking potholes everywhere
Police and social care are worse
Libraries are closing & homelessness is rising
Why are we paying more & getting less
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@bottomley50 Despite what has happened regarding Mandelson???? Not sure your assertion is correct
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Boris Johnson will go down as the worse PM ever and Keir Starmer will go down as one of the best.
LadyValor@lady_valor_07
Do you believe Boris Johnson was a better Prime Minister than Keir Starmer?
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@danielgoyal You sought independence in a once in a generation referendum 12 years ago. Did not know a generation was this short! Plus Westminster have repeatedly said NO to another referendum, so seems pointless constantly talking about it?
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Scotland hasn’t voted for a right wing government since 1955
Yet since then we have spent 47 years under right wing rule
Now we are facing being ruled by a far right UK Party….
despite voting overwhelmingly for a socialist party.
Do you blame us for seeking Independence?
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@TheCanaryUK Won't work. You cannot dictate what a private company charges for their products. Only way the SNP can do this is the fund the difference
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🚨BREAKING: The First Minister of Scotland says the SNP would set MAXIMUM prices for essential food items – including bread, milk, cheese, eggs and rice – using public health powers on nutritional grounds.
Who else thinks Starmer should do the same in England and Wales?
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@Heccles94 Like it or not Defence spending HAS to get to 5% of GDP and that money has to come from somewhere. Would you prefer it comes from Edication or the NHS or that the govt actually tackle the wholly unsuitable welfare spend
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The health secretary wants to cut welfare to fund bombs.
You couldn’t make it up 😭😭
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Wes Streeting has suggested he supports cutting welfare to fund defence “It’s got to come from somewhere”
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@clairebubblepop People only demonised those on benefits that can & should work don't they???
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Seen as people are demonising those on benefits, let’s talk about the £Ms given to MPs like Farage & Lowe for their rent/mortgage, energy bills, food, travel, basically anything you can think of. So GREED is acceptable & NEED is not? I’d rather kids get free lunch than greedy MPs
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@EMackintosh1 @theSNP Why is Independence there? How many times does Westminster have to say NO before you realise the SNP does not have the power to hold one
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A bold & ambitious @theSNP manifesto - on Scotland’s side.
🚌 Nationwide £2 bus cap
🧃 Cap on prices for essential food
🏠 £10,000 for first time buyers
✈️ Private Jet Tax
💻 Online harm tackled
👩🏫 Teacher Job Guarantee
🌱 Net zero by 2045
🏴 An independence referendum
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@RichardBurgon Serious question. These are publicly traded companies, so where does the money come from to buy the requisite amount of shares required to cause a buyout & what happens if current shareholders don't want to sell?
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Yorkshire Water is to pay out £2.35 Million after a series of pollution incidents.
Our water system is a total scandal.
Private firms have turned our rivers into open sewers, while hiking costs and handing billions to shareholders.
Bring water back into public ownership!
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@clairebubblepop Underfunded?? The issues are many. Waste is a big one. The other is population increase. If the UK population is increasing by 0.5-1% per annum, then the amount of money, staff, ambulances, beds etc... all have to increase by at least this amount or by definition it gets worse
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Right so now the NHS is failing because of migrants apparently. Do fuck off. It’s because it’s underfunded, understaffed and they’re underpaid. The govt would rather pay agencies for work because they back business and obviously their own coffers. Fucking stop lobbying!
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@BotFinderUK How did HMRC lose it exactly? It not being paid is very different to being lost???
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HMRC lost £500bn last year due to the richest avoiding tax.
That's enough to re-arm the country and build 100 new hospitals with 50,000 new nurses.
Why do the rich hate this country?
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@FPLMaineRoad They had the opportunity to get 'that' draw. They just needed to win all 8 of their group games
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City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Newcastle would still be in the competition if they got that draw.
Leverkusen and Sporting CP is a Europa League draw, and Arsenal still managed to only win 2 out of 4 games.
CaughtOffside@caughtoffside
🚨 "There's a reason we are the only English team left in the competition!" 👀 Mikel Arteta defended his exhausted Arsenal players after another hard-fought result and a place in the #UCL semi-finals 💪
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I am afraid that Ian Duncan Smith simply hasn’t grasped the main issue. We will not persuade other countries to leave their fossil fuels in the ground if we try to extract every last molecule of oil and gas from the North Sea.
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🚨"We have oil and gas. We have an island that sits on oil and gas. So the whole idea that we stop drilling is really stupid." Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP attacks Ed Miliband's "stupid" Net Zero policies. @JuliaHB1 | @MPIainDS
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Happy birthday to Manchester City, which celebrates its 132nd anniversary today! 🎉🩵
🏆 10 Premier League
🏆 9 League Cup
🏆 7 FA Cup
🏆 1 Champions League
🏆 1 UEFA Super Cup
🏆 1 FIFA Club World Cup
What is the first thing you think of when you see this badge? 🤔
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@Heidi_Labour There's approx £9 billion of Vehicle Excise Duty paid annually. Evety last penny of this should ho towards road repairs & infrastructure
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Shelling out at the garage to repair pothole damage is no joke - I should know.
That's why we're investing record funding to fix Britain's roads, and introducing tough new standards to make sure road users see the difference.
thesun.co.uk/motors/3883046…
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@justaphag6 Shows how out of touch the Greens are if they actually think you can legislate what a private company can pay anyone. The economy will be decimated as no one will operate a business here.
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rich people are losing their MIND at the concept of the 10:1 pay ratio 🤣🤣🤣 absolutely terrified that they’re gunna have to pay their employees well if they want to be paid well 🤣
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Green leader Zack Polanski will call for policies to end the "affordability crisis" tomorrow - The introduction of a 10:1 pay ratio, whereby the highest-paid employee earns no more than ten times the lowest-paid - Free school meals for all primary and secondary pupils - Universal energy bill support for households and stronger rent controls - A customs union with the EU to cut business costs
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