simplesimon
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Is this a joke? Surely you aren't talking about the UK?
You can vote... in elections? Local elections? Thats what they are there for!
Obviously you can't vote on every single aspect of how council tax is spent - that would be impractical to the point of insanity.... Do you know what proportion of budget should be spent on waste collection? Are you really well informed enough to suggest your council could afford to cut back on roadside maintenence?
Elections are there so you can vote on the people you want to do these things for you! Did you vote in your last local election? |
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Ding Dong
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Although you don't get to vote specifically upon what the money is spent, you have the opportunity to vote in your local elections for the party that you think will spend your money most wisely. A pound to a penny you don't vote in your local elections, so why ask such a daft question on here?
AND I WOULD BET MY MORTGAGE ON YOU NOT BEING A VOTER IN YOUR LOCAL ELECTIONS! |
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Silke
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That why you should vote for your councillors. |
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billy
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Its called voting- If look into what the policies are for each candidate you can vote for the one you think will do the best job
its a pretty tough role- imagine having to listen to everyone before making decisions- nothing would ever happen.
Major decisions you can always petition against- the more signatures, the more likely they are to take notice |
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A pale imitation of The Dame
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We do.. they are called local elections, unfortunately, local representatives are so corrupt that they promise one thing to get your vote and then do the complete opposite when you have elected them into power. |
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psychclaire
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True that I pay and it is spent on someone who doesn't. |
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DF
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you voted for your council didn't you? |
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luludoodie
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Because the "people" woudl vote for what they want not what the politicians want to impose on us (usually the opposite!). |
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ChocLover
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I vote it's not spent on the people that don't pay it! |
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The One
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Well most of it pays for the councils holidays and pi*s ups.
Your very right we should have a say. |
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LAURA L
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my point exactly! Where i live its very "old people" orientated, which means they think they have all the decisions and make out that the "young people" dont belong here. Being 25 and seeing the changes they have made over the years - which have included: the old people campaigning about a swimming pool slide tower being "unsightly" so they got their way and it got taken down. A skate board park for the children being closed because the old people "didnt like it" and now the local swimming pool is being closed - which my son's school attends and now cannot as there are no other local pools, and this is being done to make way for a park that caters for the "elderly only" being built by the council which includes park area and exercise and relaxation machines for the elderly and a cafe, and young people are not allowed to enter.
This has angered me hugely - concidering that the old people here are all retired and therefor probably getting council tax benefit, it is us "young people" who are paying it every year to provide services and parks that we are not allowed to use.
And to make matters worse all the councillors are, yep you guessed it.....old!! |
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