Saturday, 09 February 2013 09:56
'Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has been touring the country imploring the local councils not to raise their council tax above the rate of inflation, and with some success. But by focusing debate simply on how much we pay in council tax, our attention has been diverted from the real story of how councils are managing to finance their ever-rising expenditure.
The fact is that our bloated local authorities, with so many of their senior officials now being paid far more than the Prime Minister, have been cunningly devising every kind of new way to take money off us.
It is one of the best-kept secrets in British politics, costing us all ever-more billions of pounds every year. Yet we are scarcely aware of what a revolution it represents in the way we are governed. The truth is that these new money-grabbing ploys earn councils as much every year as they get from council tax itself.'
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