Council budget negotiations collapse (From St Albans & Harpenden Review)

No shock really, they under spent by for 500, 000 last year on housing, so why do they need this increase, in fact they have under spent for the last four years, so this shows how much they care about the people that have little. Removing people of the waiting list that were and still are overcrowded, low income earners have to pay 30% towards there council tax when before they got 100% paid, same sex kids in the same room no matter what age, welcome to the tory Britain.

Your report is not quite right. It was the Labour group, supported by the other opposition parties, that voted for a rent rise in line with inflation, 3.1%. The Conservatives wanted way above that, 5.2%.

The Conservatives' problem is that they don't have a majority of seats, yet they continually try to push through measures that no one else wants, without negotiating in advance to get some kind of way forward. Then when the vote inevitably goes against their bullish proposals, they don't accept the result and do anything they can to ignore or overturn it.

This happened on the Local Plan, the tenancy strategy and now the budget. This is no way to run a council.

When i tried to get the papers of st Albans involved in a local story about the council they showed no interest, the radio did, funny if you think about it they never have a bad word about the council, well not that i have noticed. May be because of the back handers they may get or not get.
Its about time the press looked at the real world.

Simon Grover wrote:
Your report is not quite right. It was the Labour group, supported by the other opposition parties, that voted for a rent rise in line with inflation, 3.1%. The Conservatives wanted way above that, 5.2%.

The Conservatives' problem is that they don't have a majority of seats, yet they continually try to push through measures that no one else wants, without negotiating in advance to get some kind of way forward. Then when the vote inevitably goes against their bullish proposals, they don't accept the result and do anything they can to ignore or overturn it.

This happened on the Local Plan, the tenancy strategy and now the budget. This is no way to run a council.

your spot on simon

lovffc wrote:
No shock really, they under spent by for 500, 000 last year on housing, so why do they need this increase, in fact they have under spent for the last four years, so this shows how much they care about the people that have little. Removing people of the waiting list that were and still are overcrowded, low income earners have to pay 30% towards there council tax when before they got 100% paid, same sex kids in the same room no matter what age, welcome to the tory Britain.

I agree, the tories are scum.

We had been waiting for a 2 bed place for years before the Tory council then decided that 3 people in a one bed flat is acceptable.

We don't claim any benefits, we both work, but we cannot afford to privately rent, and we were all born in this country and have paid taxes for at least 18 years each.

According to what the tories will have you think, we all sit around in our 'council house mansions' with our flat screen tv's, hoovering up benefits whilst eating takeaways and living off the state.

This is not the case.

There is only so much you can do to kick the poor before you find yourself having to deal with the fallout.

ROLL ON NEXT ELECTION.

UKIP for me.

Labour = more immigrants
Conservative = more anti poor taxation
Lib Dem = no backbone, cozies up with anyone to get in power.

mr.taxpayer wrote:

lovffc wrote:
No shock really, they under spent by for 500, 000 last year on housing, so why do they need this increase, in fact they have under spent for the last four years, so this shows how much they care about the people that have little. Removing people of the waiting list that were and still are overcrowded, low income earners have to pay 30% towards there council tax when before they got 100% paid, same sex kids in the same room no matter what age, welcome to the tory Britain.

I agree, the tories are scum.

We had been waiting for a 2 bed place for years before the Tory council then decided that 3 people in a one bed flat is acceptable.

We don't claim any benefits, we both work, but we cannot afford to privately rent, and we were all born in this country and have paid taxes for at least 18 years each.

According to what the tories will have you think, we all sit around in our 'council house mansions' with our flat screen tv's, hoovering up benefits whilst eating takeaways and living off the state.

This is not the case.

There is only so much you can do to kick the poor before you find yourself having to deal with the fallout.

ROLL ON NEXT ELECTION.

UKIP for me.

Labour = more immigrants
Conservative = more anti poor taxation
Lib Dem = no backbone, cozies up with anyone to get in power.

Mr Taxman
Sounds like we are both in the same boat that's what they done to us, me, the wife and our daughter in a one bed until she is 2, when i looked at overcrowding act and told them we were overcrowded, was told to use front room as bedroom, a front room that has no space for a cot,a front door that opens out onto a public bridal path and an open open plan kitchen with no door attached to it.
Same as you can not afford private rent, and tbh there is no security for us doing that i do not want to move every year.
The fact is that the tories do not want social housing in this area and nor do most of people that live here, the reason for this is because they read the papers and throw everyone into the same pot.
We pay tax, i am British, and am sick of being treated like s###, as my vote, it will go to a party that cares about people like me, if i can find one.