Can someone tell me what I’m actually paying for?
My latest council tax bill has arrived. £330 a month.
For what?
We still have to pay extra just to have the garden waste collected.
The roads are knackered, the drains are blocked, and every time it rains the streets flood.
The local town is now devoid of shops because business rates and parking charges have made it almost impossible to trade and expensive for people to visit.
So where is the money going?
Councils spend tax revenue on vanity projects like cycle lanes that might see a bike once a decade and disability parking bays that sit empty most of the time.
Meanwhile the services we actually rely on continue to decline.
We are expected to pay more and more for less and less.
And at the same time we all see public money being spent on people who entered this country illegally and have never contributed.
So I’ll ask again.
What exactly are we paying for?
The whole system is broken.
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The BBC is publicly funded to provide balanced reporting. Giving disproportionate coverage to a fringe party with 5 MPs while overlooking the government’s achievements crosses the line into state-funded propaganda.
I feel her pain as a mother, I’m not in Wales but I’m terrified every time my son goes out. This fear isn’t imagined, it’s real, and it’s fuelled by vile politicians and YL lot who’ve normalised hate. It’s making so many of us sick with worry. Enough is enough.
@reformparty_uk being exposed for the racists they are.
These two women have been friends for 40 years yet the white lady didn't realise just how uncomfortable the flags being hoisted up were making her black friend feel....
A must-watch video
@narindertweets Can you explain how Lucy Connolly comments are 'racist'. I mean you might think she's racist and she could be racist. But how are her comments regarded as in any way racially motivated?
Nigel Farage talking outside court after an Afghan migrant who threatened to kill him on a tiktok video is jailed for 5yrs.
Farage "..deeply concerning that he will be released in 18mmths."
The SAME MAN who weeks ago, hugged and platformed Lucy Connolly-who was convicted of inciting racial hatred "set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards" (released after serving less than half her sentence- also roaming our streets)
HYPOCRISY doesn't even cover the sheer audacity of this man.
@TonyMcDonnell3@LBC Bollocks.
So if I went and moved to Poland, Spain, France, Germany and a neighbour puts a national flag up near me. I am meant to be intimidated by the national flag of the country I am residing in as a none national? Fuckin nonsense.
@LBC Neville is correct on why people are flying the flag now! People are flying them now to make other nationalities feel uncomfortable. The very definition of racism! Hes wrong on the rest of it though
Seeing some absolutely diabolical twisted takes on this Gary Neville video.
Are you all actually listening to what he's saying?!? He isn't blaming the flag shaggers for the dreadful synagogue attack?
He criticised people fuelling division after the attack.
He didn’t say those people carried it out.
He didn’t “blame white men” for terrorism. But blamed them (rightly ) for causing division.
The truth is, if they stopped the boats tomorrow, your life would not change one bit.
You'd still be hard up, with ever increasing bills and food prices.
Why? Because it's the capitalist system designed to screw over the working class that's the problem, not the small boats.
If you felt Angela had to go but not Farage...I want to know what the difference is?
(And don't say what he's doing is legal..it's still tax avoidance whichever way you slice the pie)
Angela Rayner is one of the great British political figures of our time.
Generations will grow up with stronger rights at work and in new homes because of her vision and leadership.
I know she will continue to stand at the front of the fight for social justice in this country.
@Brink_Thinker Yes. We had a bell attached to our home and when it got dark and we heard it, everyone in the neighborhood knew me and my brothers - get home. I just brought the bell to Nashville and restored it!