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Originally Posted by Platapus
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Originally Posted by Skybird
These town councils so much talk is about in Britain - what are these exactly, and how do they get their power, where is the basis for this written down? I admit I have only a vague impression - but that impression is negative. I mean - i never heared something positive about them.
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I have been asking this same question on some other boards. How did these town councils garner such authority and is there no check/balance of their power?
Does every town have these councils or only specific ones? Are the council members elected by the citizens?
And despite all the bad press (whether it is justified or not) what do these town councils do that is good? |
The supposed aim was to devolve authority into local assemblies. What we have is National Government (regional government sort of in parrellel for Scots and Welsh) District councils then local councils.
yes they are elected, but when has that ever made anybody useful.
really the whole idea is to get extra taxes so in addition to income tax (a % of your salary). you have a local tax which they rename evry other year so you can't complain about it. It used to be called poll tax and was a flat charge for everybody, before that it was rates and was a tax on the size of your house now it's some kind of mixture of the two.
As for crime not paying your council tax is one of the few things which will get you a shared room in one of HM's prisons.
Hope this helps.