Now you know why the council tax was rising so fast, to keep up with houses prices, now it will rise even faster as is is used to bail out property specualtors to the tune of several hundred billion pounds. HEad they win tails they cannot lose - the end is nigh.
Funny they have billions to bale out rich property speculatorsbut nothing to help the pooe who will freeze to death due to extortioniate gas prices. (rises of 30% announced despite oil falling 40% in price, where is the missing 70%? Shareholders pockets?)
Bazzer Smith explained :
They are importing gas and electric from abroad. What I want to know is when it has all turned nuclear powered will the price come back down.
Where does the article say anything about bailing out property speculators? If the council has any savvy, unsold properties will be bought at a knockdown price. AIUI it 'can' cost councils more to rehouse evicted families than it would cost to pay their mortgage. Not that I think that would be a good idea, but council part or total ownership, with reduced payments for existing owner occupiers, seems a better solution to the problem, than councils maybe having to pay for hotel accomodation. At least, the councils will have the equity of the property with that solution, so long term, if or when the properties are sold it will help to offset any losses. Mike.
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Gas prices have halved recently yet the put the price up 35% Robbery.
They are not paying knock down prices, they are going to pay top of the market prices. The idea is to use council tax money to keep the property bubble inflated.
Only if they are grossly incompetent.
They should not be putting people in hotels.
How can they pay top of the market prices when we're not at the top of the market anymore?
How do you know that, or are you just speculating?
Unless they have empty council houses or hostel accomodation, they have to go private, and pay market prices.
AIUI if there is no cheaper alternative that's what they may have to do. Mike.
Don't forget council tax is also used to fund private Housing Associations, most councils don't give a toss how much they pay HA's to take those on their council housing waiting lists.
and it was Tony B-liars Gov that forced councils to sell up their council housing stock to HA's, and still not let those councils use the money to build replacements.
and council tax is used to pay for other useless items like Police valets, otherwise called PCSOs, whose job is to go find a real policeman.
With a bit of effort i'm sure most of us can think of other abuses of council tax
What's even more amusing is the Gov expects us to remain law abiding, whilst it acts like a drunken highwayman, with local taxpayers money.
Stand and Deliver! again and again.
Steve Terry
We don't know this yet.
It's quite likely to be the case, but not certain
What else do you suggest? (So many councils do this, that there must be a reason)
tim
In message , Steve Terry wrote
Around 'here' its road traffic calming on a large scale and when no-one can move on both of the main routes in or out of the town they wonder why people are using rat-runs on mass.
They are now worried about visibility at all the minor road junctions because of inappropriate parking. Instead of the cheap option of a few metres of double yellows around the corners they are proposing raised traffic tables (glorified road humps) with narrower carriageways, pedestrian safety areas and soft landscaping to make them look pretty.
In a recent consultation exercise the traffic department stated that they would not share the public's responses with any other council department for data protection reasons. Perhaps the right hand never knows what the left hand is doing!
After years of consultation with the council about replacing the gas and water mains the utility companies dug up the main pedestrian walkway in the shopping area a month after the council had completed a £1.5 million spend installing fancy cobble stones in pretty patterns. The end result doesn't look anything like the artists impressions. Furthermore, a quote from a friend who has some trouble walking as a result of an accident " the uneven cobbled surface is f*****g dangerous".
As a technical point, it will never turn all nuclear as nuclear power is only suitable for steady loads and you need ways of filling in demand peaks.
Dropping uk.legal - doesn't seem relevant. Dropping uk.misc - misc and specific groups in the same hierarchy are not compatible.
>"David Woolley" wrote
That's not a good enough reason to assume we can't have 100% nuclear - all you need is energy storage systems (eg big battery banks storing electricity!).
The system used is called Pumped-storage hydroelectricity.
Such generators already exist, we won't need to do any new building
tim
In message , Tim wrote
They pump water up a couple of hills for that.
While that might be true of the types of reactor we would build (I'm not sure either way) some types of nuclear reactor can quickly increase their output power. (The extreme case being a nuclear bomb where it goes from no power output to maximum power output in milliseconds)
There is sometimes a problem when a reactor has been run at high power for a while and is then run at lower power. There can be a delay of several hours before it's (safely) possible to ramp up the power again.
Tim.
Yes. I was aware of that option.
Yes we do. What currently exists only has limited capacity and we get most peak load electricity from gas turbines. As well as requiring suitable locations, I believe it is actually rather inefficient. They also need to be built in lakes and mountains locations, so there is an impact on the visual environment.
"Miss Baltimore Crabs" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@gratiano.zephyr.org.uk...
By not waiting fo the bottom.
Stick them in a caravan, or tent.
Stick them in a caravan, or tent.
Its a good idea! Just so long as they arn't forced to then sell them off at a loss through "right to buy".
They all ready have the right to buy any house on the market they want, this new provision must be then some kind of compulsary purchase and will involve significant discount on what the vendor is expecting.
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