More tax if Labour do their job


People who live in areas with good schools, clean streets and low crime rates face huge increases in their council tax bills.

Ah… Labour is charging people for doing the job they are supposed to be doing. We already pay taxes. The streets are supposed to be clean. We are supposed to have good schools and low crime rates. Why exactly do we have to pay more if the government is actually doing their job?

For the first time, data provided by the national census, school exam results and crime statistics will be fed into the calculations. Householder income, cohabitation and, in what many MPs will regard as a highly contentious move, ethnicity will be taken into account.

Why should ethnicity have any bearing on how much you pay? Who’s betting that white areas are going to get a bigger tax increase than those friendly Muslim areas?