After millions were slapped with inflation-busting bills, struggling households will have to pay record amounts of council tax this year.
Homes across England face paying an average of £2,280 after almost all town halls increased the tax by the maximum 5 percent allowed, official figures confirmed yesterday.
It means rates for a standard Band D property have skyrocketed by 20 percent in just five years.
And it comes as residents in Birmingham – where bills are up 17.5 percent in two years – chased bin lorries down the street after a week-long walkout left piles of rubbish bags standing waist high, with rats running rampant.
Hundreds of thousands of homes will have to fork out more than £2,500 for council services this year, the new data revealed, while growing numbers will pay more than £5,000.
Residents in six parts of England face increases above the usual 5 percent after ministers agreed their struggling town halls required more money.
And the Tories pointed out that four of them – Bradford, Newham, Birmingham and Trafford – are Labour-run, while the other two, Somerset and Windsor, are controlled by the Liberal Democrats.
The central theme of Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s party’s local election campaign was the shortcomings at Birmingham City Council, where an equal-pay lawsuit and IT fiasco had rendered Europe’s largest local body insolvent.
At yesterday’s takeoff, she warned that Labour councils ‘always cost you more and deliver less’, adding: ‘Labour has run Birmingham into the ground. All while Labour councillors gave themselves a pay rise. Don’t let Labour do that to your council – if you vote Labour, you get trash.’
Since Rachel Reeves’ budget raised the amount of National Insurance that town halls must pay for its employees, the Conservatives have accused Labour of pressuring them to raise their costs.
Local government spokesman Kevin Hollinrake said: ‘This Labour Government is driving up costs for councils across the country with their jobs tax. It’s no surprise they have raised council tax by 5 percent, with the highest increases by Labour and Liberal Democrat councils.
‘This has been engineered by Labour, who have left town halls to foot the blame when record bills hit the doormat.’
While the opposition leader in 2023, Sir Keir Starmer claimed Labour would have frozen council tax for a year if it had been in power. But since moving into government, no such hold has been enforced.
Labour envisions the UK awash in trash, overrun by undocumented immigrants, and governed by an inept parliament where nothing functions as it should.
It appears that only a fraction of our Council Tax is used for services. The vast majority is being used to finance a new life for new arrivals and money to aid other nations.
These new arrivals got to spend the winter in comfortable hotels that were heated and provided food. Starmer and Reeves have ignored the pleas of those who said their most brutal policies would ensure pensioners and the disabled were left to choose heat or eat, and many have died as a result of this evil approach.
Our armed services have fought to protect the UK and then are left on the streets or again are left to choose heat or eat, and also many have died because of this. We are treated like common criminals, and even they have human rights on their side while our government spends millions on illegals.
Council tax is the most insane and pointless costed bill. It’s not founded on any logic, and we are being charged outrageous prices for it. At this rate, it would be more sensible to get a flight to France and come back on a dingy and get rewarded handsomely, and the same councillors will still be getting their free lunches, free parking, subsidised fuel allowance plus over inflated salaries and pensions – reminds me of Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm.’
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