tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post2318725846456159164..comments2024-03-18T16:56:49.185+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: Will Brent's 'garden tax' lead to more Birmingham style fly-tipping?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-63171130411522709722014-07-04T10:45:11.784+01:002014-07-04T10:45:11.784+01:00Why so tetchy, 21.46, above? The comment at 13.45 ...Why so tetchy, 21.46, above? The comment at 13.45 to which you appear to be objecting is surely an example of the joined-up thinking citizens need to exercise - see 1 July 19.48, below - if we're to begin to hold our representatives to account? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-90745690004548064632014-07-03T19:46:50.027+01:002014-07-03T19:46:50.027+01:00Agree, 19.48, that 'residents need to wake up ...Agree, 19.48, that 'residents need to wake up and stop listening to the claptrap and open their eyes'. If the matter weren't so serious, political parties vying for the position of keeping council tax (CT) the lowest would be hilarious. Council tax is the most regressive tax there is, obscenely so in London with its rampant property-price inflation, usually soft-focused by being referred to, apparently innocuously, as 'house-price rises'. The question isn't how many properties fall into the top CT band H but how many don't (very few in London). So the homeowner of a multi-million property anywhere across the city will pay the same CT as someone living in a two- or even one-bed flat. If you think this doesn't apply to Brent, you'd be wrong. A one-bed in the Willesden Green Library development will cost £405k, falling into the top CT band which applies to properties over £320k - link below <br /><br />http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/life/tax/council_tax.htm. <br /><br />Interesting: inflation of almost 30% in any other context than property prices would be focusing government minds. When it's for property, it's seen to be 'a good thing' - at least until recently. But now the capital's citizens are wising up. <br /><br />Back to the politicians - instead of arguing over keeping CT low, they'd be acknowledging the inequity this now-ridiculous system has for too long been engendering. There is an alternative - it's called land-value tax which the Green Party supports.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-70397090727446437842014-07-02T09:45:55.866+01:002014-07-02T09:45:55.866+01:00I'd like to put a counter-point here: resident...I'd like to put a counter-point here: residents can beat the 'garden tax' by composting grass-cuttings and making leaf-mould. No special containers are needed for either - the cuttings can be left in a pile to rot down, the leaves can be piled up in a shady corner inside, for example, a cylinder of plastic-covered wire to stop them blowing away. Both can then be re-used in the garden - the leaf mould makes excellent potting compost. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-34242224522756005012014-07-01T21:46:32.615+01:002014-07-01T21:46:32.615+01:00FKRL - KR library application.
Nearly every reply ...FKRL - KR library application.<br />Nearly every reply on this blog refers to Kensal Rise. Anybody else read this blog?<br />Enough already!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-75130300812460482982014-07-01T19:48:23.057+01:002014-07-01T19:48:23.057+01:00Copied from Dan Filson's comment on Kilburn Ti...Copied from Dan Filson's comment on Kilburn Times link - 'have you not noticed that under Labour the council tax did not increase once during the period from 2010 to date, whereas it rose regularly in the previous 4 years when the Liberal Democrats ran the Council with Conservative support, despite government revenues to Brent rising then and falling since 2010.'<br /><br />Am I wrong in thinking that the directive to freeze council tax came from Central Government which is Conservative/Lib Dem? Aren't Local Authorities given some money from Central Government to cover not having an increase<br /><br />Excerpt from Eric Pickles - 'As well as special funding that has ensured councils freeze their bills, the Government has scrapped a council tax revaluation and in the future residents themselves will have the right to veto excessive increases in local referendums.' <br /><br />Isn't it time councillors stop with the verbal diahorea and start making some sense, residents need to wake up and stop listening to the claptrap and open their eyes.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-67432490742827791362014-06-29T19:17:39.413+01:002014-06-29T19:17:39.413+01:00Dan Filson seems to have a lot to say FULL STOP.
T...Dan Filson seems to have a lot to say FULL STOP.<br />There is a good thread running on the Kilburn Times website today - seems to like the sound of his ipad tapping. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-88905416999110490902014-06-29T17:02:14.797+01:002014-06-29T17:02:14.797+01:00Dan Filson does appear to be rather gabby. Hoping ...Dan Filson does appear to be rather gabby. Hoping for a place on the council exec, perhaps?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-53590329959530148222014-06-29T13:45:50.256+01:002014-06-29T13:45:50.256+01:00A glance at the comments section of the Kilburn Ti...A glance at the comments section of the Kilburn Times story - link in blog - shows that newby councillor, Dan Filson, has a lot to say. It seems that Cllr Butt has nothing to fear by way of a critical voice from this apparently loyal party-political follower. Mr Filson also had quite a bit to say, on a previous Wembley Matters blog, about the latest Kensal Rise Library application, where he come out against deferral of the planning committee hearing until the active police investigation into the fraudulent email affair enmeshing the original application has concluded, and any charges been made. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com