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[TD]

9 weeks suggests public service

Which would explain the £2+k council tax bill, and all I get for that is my bins emptied 24 times.

£2048 / 24 = £85.33 for each collection.

£2048 +5%=£2150ish after the April rise.

10.8% here 

[Doctor Gollum]

Frozen here...

[Sir Tigger KC]

Frozen here...

Ah yes Surrey?  Wasn't that down to a Dodgy Deal Gentleman's Agreement with the Government? 

[tunnie]

Surrey Heath got a ~3% rise. Don't understand why Brackley's council tax is higher than Surrey Heath 

£1.7k here for 4 bed house.

[TheBoy]

9 weeks suggests public service

Which would explain the £2+k council tax bill, and all I get for that is my bins emptied 24 times.

£2048 / 24 = £85.33 for each collection.

£2048 +5%=£2150ish after the April rise.

10.8% here 

The increase is alledgedly 4%. Thats what the letter from the thickos says.

My A level maths suggests the increase from £181pm to £205 as far nearer double what they claim.

But then if public service gives DB pensions, 45 days holiday, and enough pay to afford big V8 cars and holidays, I guess they need to have big increases just for staffing costs, as there aren't any services here to cut (according to what the dumb ass bitch told me a couple of years back when I complained that the hikes in council tax were unreasonable.

No wonder our local council need even bigger offices, and are moving out of their swanky 15yr old huge office block to an even swankier, new, bigger one.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

To (mis)quote a certain Pink Floyd song. "Did they tell you the name of the game (The) boy ?  They call it riding the gravy train". 

[Kevin Wood]

Ours are apparently sitting on so much (of my) cash, and getting such disappointing interest rates, that they've taken to being property tycoons, bought the local pub under the guise of a shadow company and let it to the highest bidder, who happened to be the Co-Op.

Funnily enough, my application for the premises to be registered as an "asset of community value" was dismissed  with a condescending comment about it "not being financially viable" (after they'd tried the classic "you've used the wrong version of the application form". Corrupt self-abusers, the lot of them.

[TD]

Ours are apparently sitting on so much (of my) cash, and getting such disappointing interest rates, that they've taken to being property tycoons, bought the local pub under the guise of a shadow company and let it to the highest bidder, who happened to be the Co-Op.

Funnily enough, my application for the premises to be registered as an "asset of community value" was dismissed  with a condescending comment about it "not being financially viable" (after they'd tried the classic "you've used the wrong version of the application form". Corrupt self-abusers, the lot of them.

Is there another co-op nearby? .....

Seems to be a policy of the co-op round here.....buy out the competition...

Theres several co-ops that have popped up (one that was a pub, then a morrisons local, then an independent local shop, now co-op) within spitting distance of another co-op.....

[TD]

9 weeks suggests public service

Which would explain the £2+k council tax bill, and all I get for that is my bins emptied 24 times.

£2048 / 24 = £85.33 for each collection.

£2048 +5%=£2150ish after the April rise.

10.8% here 

The increase is alledgedly 4%. Thats what the letter from the thickos says.

My A level maths suggests the increase from £181pm to £205 as far nearer double what they claim.

But then if public service gives DB pensions, 45 days holiday, and enough pay to afford big V8 cars and holidays, I guess they need to have big increases just for staffing costs, as there aren't any services here to cut (according to what the dumb ass bitch told me a couple of years back when I complained that the hikes in council tax were unreasonable.

No wonder our local council need even bigger offices, and are moving out of their swanky 15yr old huge office block to an even swankier, new, bigger one.

That's about a 13% increase  .....you do know its illegal for a higher rise above 5%, except if theres a referendum and you vote to pay more .....unless you are Swindon BC and find a legal loophole, to charge me an extra 10.9% (got the bill today) 

I'll bet my gonads that the conservative council in control at the moment wont be at the next election......

[STEMO]

Got ours today...3.9% increase. So...a band A property in Barnsley goes up from £7.67 a year to almost £8. Scandalous. 

[Doctor Gollum]

Sometimes I wonder how you sleep at night...

Doesn't keep me awake in my silk sheets though, so I don't let it worry me

[STEMO]

Sometimes I wonder how you sleep at night...

Doesn't keep me awake in my sticky sheets though, so I don't let it worry me

Yer dirty bugger 

[Doctor Gollum]

Me dear? Dirty dear? No dear...

[Nick W]

Got ours today...3.9% increase. So...a band A property in Barnsley goes up from £7.67 a year to almost £8. Scandalous. 

After almost a year off for personal reasons, I've taken a £2500ish paycut. That's about 10%. But, I now walk to work except on Thursdays, and do 45 hours a week instead of the 80ish that I did for 13 years. It's a huge improvement

[2boxerdogs]

For less than two weeks it's cheaper to rent, over four weeks and it's cheaper to buy

And therein lies the crux of it. My folks (semi retired) bought a caravan last year and have so far had 3x3weeks on the continent. South of France, and 2x north Italy. No idea what that would cost in a hotel, even if you could get in with 2 large dogs. But I'll bet the £11k caravan is nearly half way to buying itself, even if you assigned it nil residual value.

SWMBO and I will probably pay £5k max for our day van (inc conversion costs) and our intention would be to do at least one long trip/yr and as many weekends as we can manage.

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That's the thing with any hobby you need to get your monies worth out of your investment, we paid £9,000 for our caravan in 2012 & £5,500 for the 4x4 to tow it ,I get 9 weeks leave a year the wife gets 13 so the outfit owes us nothing.

I don't know what you and your Mrs do, but whatever you both do . . . . are there any vacancies ?

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My missus as someone guessed is in education ( head of science department) I have mentioned that I am in HMPS only work 19.5 hours as I took partial retirement in 2014 , don't wish to retire fully yet have a great shift pattern & actually enjoy the job again, haven't been on here for a few days as I am on a training course in Coventry at present . Have been a public servant for the majority of my working life.