and it’s a cunt.
Phil Riley, the council’s Labour leader, previously said the council would “rather the money went on delivering services people want than on an election which would have to be repeated just a year later and on different ward boundaries”.
On the whole, its just another excuse (after excuse) saying that they don’t have the funds for a local election (that they will loose) partially because they are spending our money on the unwashed masses.
This is democracy? somehow I don’t think so.
Where as Lib Dem Cheltenham borough council said the decision to postpone its election was “the right one” ( due to lack of funding).
However, just a few months ago, it was revealed that the local authority had spent hundreds of thousands of pounds in taxpayer cash on gagging orders over two years, up to and including 2024/25.
A freedom of information response obtained last year revealed that £782,468 had been paid in association with 25 non-disclosure agreements signed by the council.
I think they could have afforded that election, and that’s a lot of hush money.
your thoughts please?
Nominated by Lord Benny.
It is the eternal irony of Communists wanting to participate in democratic elections.
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The councils will find the money to paint the towns and put up pride flags when the time comes.
They will have the money available to install toilets for transexuals and to promote their deviances.
For the council tax payers of these towns the answer is simple and obvious.
Stop paying the cunts.
Withold your council tax.
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Years ago Arty, an elderly woman in Devon declared she would not pay the increase in the rates being levied. She was a tough old bird who was featured in the national news preparing for going to jail. At the last possible moment an “anonymous” donor paid her bill and she wasn’t sent down. I’d bet the house to a pinch of shit that the donor was a member of the party in power in the local authority.
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There is no accountability Arfur.
I imagine that it would be extremely difficult to find out exactly how much these councils get.
It’s not just the council tax that they receive, it will also be government funding, parking fees and fines that they have levied on their long suffering constituents, etc….
I shouldn’t think that anyone in the councils have a fucking clue just how much money they are raking in.
And nobody really knows where all the money is going.
How much is being spent on diversity courses and free trade coffee available at their non-binary book clubs?
No fucker knows and as no itemised accounts are available to the public, nobody cares.
Councils just give away money.
There was the Pákí mayor of Tower Hamlets (a part of London that already has a mayor in Khan, but might as well invent a new job for a fellow Pákí), he was giving away untold thousands of pounds to various Muslim groups, some of which never asked for it.
If any council tax payer were to see exactly what their hard earned money was being wasted on, they would stop paying immediately.
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Header pic:
‘Does my bomb look big in this?’
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Well its a bit late, Farage (my mate, marmite) Went to take HMG to court and they all backed down, so local elections will go ahead.
Although not Government this will be a massive head turn for Starmer’s puppet popularity.
Yet again I find that the Government and local council concentrates on minority issues, partly perhaps it is because these minorities get off their fucking arses and vote for what they want and don’t sit at home complaining about how shit things are.
Again my anger dwells upon lazy white people who have facilitated this slide.
https://youtube.com/shorts/K99P5LKrva0?si=DXMUyuFSUb_iUbO-
I think Jimmy puts forward a very well balanced and objective point in this.
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When the choice was between a red rosette and a blue one, with the wearers of both being equally corrupt and useless, then there was little point in voting Benny.
Personally I think that Farage is full of piss and hot air and has no chance of achieving anything meaningful.
But putting his party into the mix may prompt more people to show up and vote.
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Well when he ran UKIP he got the job done 😉( later to be sabotaged by those blue and red rosettes)
He also likes Dogs, pints and fags so that is a further 3 boxes ticked in my book.
As I said Marmite, either love him or hate him and the other choices seem to be dogshit and poison.
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Too skint to run a democracy?
That’s a new one.
And now that excuse has been roundly condemned, their coming up with some fairy story of not having enough time to prepare.
Which is a shameful admission of the fact that they’d decided months ago that they wouldn’t bother.
And an imminent re designation of electoral boundaries isn’t an excuse either. That should have been done already.
If lack of money really is the problem, perhaps they could come up with something inventive.
How about Vote Club.
Join now and you could be in with a chance of voting at the next election!
Get priority entry to your local polling station!
Only £49 per year! (Terms and conditions of voting habits apply)
Or maybe only give the vote to those with a TV licence?
Maintain democracy and save ‘Our’ BBC at the same time.
Everyone’s a winner!
Well, sort of.
Don’t you just love living in a democracy?
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“Too skint to run a democracy?”
North Korea and Russia spring to mind, you could use that for internal PR in those places.
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Think of all the money they’d save if they just got rid of elections altogether.
It’s curious how excuses for being undemocratic centre around other people’s money..
“Yes I know I’ve been elected as MP as a Tory but decided to join Reform now,no I won’t stand down and trigger a by election as it will cost a lot of someone else’s money so fuck off”.
Gravy Train dung.
Oven.
Good morning.
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Lincoln Labour council made much of the fact that an election cost £174k and could be better spent on services. That’s about a quid per resident which would be pissed away on frippery anyway.
They were cancelling ‘for the people of Lincoln’
Selfless service.
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The council should use the illegals to fill in the 4 thousand potholes in Blackburn, according to the song the blackjack’s singing group sang years ago.
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Do I spy converts in the header pic? those hands of the pill box fashionistas look quite a lot paler than they ought 😧…and they’ve certainly been on the double helpings of samosas and bhajis looking at their frames or are they concealing something 😩…. could be a few ballot boxes for the imam 🧐
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Even though the elections are back on, the councils involved are whinging that they do not have enough time to get things ready. Well if they had not tried to thwart democracy in the first place they would not have had such difficulties, self serving cunts. Anyway the real reason for the continued heel dragging is because those councillors who voted to suspend elections will now be removed by the voters for being crooked scum. Of course they will be replaced by Lib Dems. Fucking depressing, isn’t it?
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Good morning, everyone.
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