[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Santa

To be fair, our local council publishes a list of what they're spending on every year and there have been cuts recently for things that are pretty essential but I can't see where they could make savings elsewhere to fund them. For example, the village I live in used to have one bus an hour which was bad enough, that's now cut down to a bus every 2 hours, and there's a high chance that from next year there will simply be no bus at all. That's because the council has to subsidise it as it's not a profitable route for bus companies otherwise. However... We're 7 miles from the nearest town and without the bus, anyone who doesn't drive (mainly the elderly) is completely cut off to the extent that I can't even see how it would be possible for them to continue living here. A taxi to town and back is £20 and there's no other transport option .

But then you I remember you saying your council tax didn't go up last year? mine went up 5.5 per cent, 3 per cent of that to social care, will be interesting to see what they put it up by this year as they were on the high end of council tax rises last year, and we had to pay an extra 50 quid on top of that raise to get the green collected, that was a disaster for them so they have brought that back under the umbrella of council tax for this year.