If you were asked?

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What do the council give you in return for the exhorbitant poll tax you pay?

You only have 10 seconds to answer

How many services can you honestly say you benefit from?
Dee L - Hi

From your list

Cemetaries - the councils are tearing down headstones and charging relatives for their replacement

Swimming pools - many are closing or have closed

Police - not interested when you need them

Parks - ever more dangerous

Street cleaning - doesn't happen ropund here

Recycling - most refuse tips closed around here and have to travel miles to find one and then be told that the waste must be segregated before you can leave

Roads - horrendous condition

Play grounds - full of hypodermics and yobo's

Blue badge - if you mean the disabled scheme, then most of the disabled badge holders around here are fitter than I will ever be.
 
Fire service
Police service
Ambulance service
Rubbish collection
Parks
Cemetaries
Crematoria
Swimming pools/leisure centres
Street cleaning
Recycling
Garden centre - cheap compost and plants grown and sold to the public and used in flower beds, run by council project
Blue Badge scheme
Roads
Playgrounds
Grass cutting and tree surgeons
Pest control
Environmental Health
Community funerals

That what I can think of in your time frame...
 
They've just removed all the parking spaces and we now have to pay £55pa, but I've been told there aren't any available though there was when they were free, does that count?
 
Its a joke, yesterday in our local paper they said that the head of the council in our area, had just got a 20% pay rise, and now he would be earning only 23K less than Gordon Brown! Leaves me in no doubt as to where our council tax goes!
 
Rubbish collection, my council are very very good.

Other than that not a lot within 10 seconds.

I suppose the roads are pretty good around our way, much much better than where I used to live.

....and this is from somebody who actually read her Council Tax Bill breakdown when it landed a few weeks ago!!
 
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