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RCTC Labour Cabinet Give Go Ahead For One Of Highest Council Tax Increases In Wales.
As expected the Labour Cabinet in RCT gave the green light to not only one of the highest Council Tax increases in Wales at 3.95%, but to the tearing up of their Council manifesto.
Prior to the Council election last May they promised to retain weekly refuse collections, pouring scorn on other Councils who had introduced them. Likewise they assured voters that they would not introduce charges for bulky waste collection, and that they would maintain standards of street cleaning and grass cutting.
Just eight months later they have revealed their true colours, breaking all three of those promises to their voters. This of course coming on top of their broken promise to keep the paddling pool.
Blatant manipulation. How can anyone trust anything they say?
Breaking promises
http://pontylibdems.org.uk/en/article/2013/649899/fortnightly-refuse-col...
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Keep voting Labour In
Keep voting Labour In Rhondda Cynon Taf you know it makes sense
if it avoids 300 job cuts
if it avoids 300 job cuts like cardiff its makes sense to riase council taxe ny 3.9%, problem is with huge cuts you can freeze council tax and lay staff off i guess nu these staff live in RCT and if laid off where will they find work?
They are not voting for it
They are not voting for it to ensure jobs are safe, other than their own in the upper echelons of course, but to ensure that they continue to draw their allowances and expenses from the rolling gravy train. We're all in it together remember.
Hear hear.
Hear hear.
Democracy, my friends, is
Democracy, my friends, is normally termed as government of the People, by the People, on behalf the people for their benefit!
Here under RCTBC, we may as well be honest and wake to to the fact that what we have is oppression and control of the People, for the benefit of the few who wish to turn the People into Sheeple...... and enrich themselves in the process!
We all need to take a stand at some point and there can be no better time to boot them all out upon finding that they are in breach of their mandate.
A breach of mandate leads to a breach of Trust. A Breach of Trust leads to a lack of confidence and that should mean a call for new elections....Problems facing us right now is that all parties are very much tarred with the same brush....full of empty promisses and willing to say anything in order to get elected!
This reminds me so much of
This reminds me so much of the ancient Chinese concept of the Mandate of Heaven. It is believed that Chinese emperors were despots, able to rule at their own whim. This was not always true, because they ruled only by the Mandate of Heaven, and when that mandate was lost because of their misrule, the people had the right, nay, the duty, to overthrow the ruler and replace him with one more in harmony with the Mandate of Heaven.
It was similar to the Divine Right of Kings as we understand it in the west, but not quite, because our kings were appointed by God to rule, and if we deposed the king then we were going against God's will. A neat political ploy of course to keep us plebs under control, which Oliver Cromwell abolished.
As it happens here in RCT, the mandate has been lost long ago by this bunch of self interested, self seekers we have as a council. The unfortunate thing is that the sheep keep voting them in, such that what we end up with is an elected dictatorship.
My own brother left Aberdare back in 1981 for Australia, where he's lived ever since. He said before he left, and he still says it, that Wales as a whole will not make any progress either socially or economically until it shakes off the millstone of the Labour Party from around its neck.
As I get older I come more and more to see that he was right, and the Welsh, with their addiction to a false idea of what Labour is all about, are their own worst enemy. That is no more true than right here in Cynon Valley.
The gullible swallow the Labour line every time and vote them in; from a Labour MP whose main interest lies a long way from here in the sands of the Middle East, to councillors who know a first class seat on a very lucrative gravy train when they see one.
So there you have it: A massive hike in the council tax to finance councillors' allowances, coupled with a loss of one week's rubbish collection and a closed police station upon which they spent over £1 million not so long ago. I call that the economics of the madhouse, but hey, you're OK with Labour, eh?
Keep them votes coming. You know it makes sense.