Dover resident here. The council leader is on £250k per year. Just about every council employee im sure is an over paid gravy train riding lefty eco nut.
Yep typical lefty thing 'work' for local authorities overpaid under worked plenty of sickness time of for nothing UNISON/UNITE making sure their every whim is catered for ,and since Kung Flu lots and lots of worky from homey ....luvly!
@@celiabeverton4514 This appears to be the direction gvmt wants, whereby everything & everyone is somehow dependent on gvmt which gives gvmt maximum control over every aspect of our lives.
Nottingham Council leader is on £182,000 pa,my own Council chief is on £149.000 with 5 staff members on £100,000 or more. HMRC is also a corporation and i wrote to them stating i had no contract and was unwilling to pay them. They ignored this,but i have issued a complaint . It's a pity Richard Vobes does nothing but stir people up ,when he has all the contacts to actually form a group that could make a difference. Had i been backed by 100,000 people HMRC would have been forced to think differently. Common Law and The Constitution have never been needed more than they are now,as we see both local and National governments reaching far beyond their remits.
@@davidbarlow350 I've done quite a bit of research on the subject. Plenty of people have tried it, literally none have been successful. The same people who want your taxes, are the same people who own the courts and write the laws. They closed all the loopholes a long time ago! They don't need you to sign a contract or your agreement to charge you council tax or any other tax. Common law and/or the constitution count for nothing in their corrupt system. You will achieve nothing but making your situation worse.
There are many that have done so and are doing so, those who sell fear against what you have done are crimminals thank you for your encouragement the masses will join u, i d rather keep the local binmen and trash the government
@@chrisgray4651 really??? The accounts have never been signed off or audited by a reputable third party of accountants who use the standard reporting procedures the whole system is devoid of responsibility under accounting conventions
What amazed me was during the Tory/Lib Government Council Tax was frozen for English Council Tax Payers by increasing subsidy from central government but only if the council opened their financial accounts to central government. Nottingham did not so the Council Tax bills increased while most of the country had a four year bill freeze.
In Mid Devon they lost £3.7 million though a silly building company they created that lost money. How a building company losses money when they effectively can build anything anywhere since they can give themselves pension to do anything.
They always have a strong of excuses don't they.They never cut from the top management,or their "pet" schemes,Diversity,green schemes,"vanity" profects.
Thurrock Council lost one billion pounds, loaning money from other councils to invest in green energy solar project. The top executives did not care a toss, as none live in the borough so it not their money they lost. They all walk away, nothing to see here, probably going to get another top executives job on a different Council.
There are now two confirmed councils on the verge of bankruptcy and I wonder how many more there are in the country that are keeping financial problems quiet at the moment. If you look at what the council tax is supposed to be used for, all these services have been stripped down as much as possible. I wonder just how much is down to bad investment and how much is due to skimming the top off the pot with stupidly high wages and un needy red tape administration along with vastly overpriced jobs for friends. Trust in the ruling bodies of the country is flailing badly when you look at what is happening on a daily basis I should imagine.
Hi Andy, I live in Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, but im under Broxtowe Council, under Nottinghamshire county Council. I do know, the council house is not Loxley house, its a registrar office and coroners court. The city council are on Station Street, as in the results you got on companies house. All the councils get bonuses when social services put an innocent child in adoption, and they are bullying parents right left and centre, so they must be shady about something
Councils trick motorists.with traps like no right turns.suddenly appearing.for.no reason on established routs.and short cuts. £130 to the.motorists Shame.on them
time to follow the money, what contracts have been awarded, who to, are they in private partnership with council, have any councilors got shares in these private companies, family members also. has any contracts be awarded to friends with kick backs. lets look at the accounts.
Tbh all the Muslims that are now top councillors I can garnatee you thier stealing huge amounts of money and it's helping them and thier fellow Muslims ☪️ just go to your local council office car parks and watch u will see the top councillors are Muslim and they drive either Mercedes rolls Royce or Aston Martin since Muslims have been given high up jobs in government and council etc huge mass amounts of money has been vanishing
I live in the kirklees area, and the council is bankrupt. They are closing care homes and sports centres, yet have, and still are, spending tens of millions on cycle lanes, speed bumps, road narrowing, 20mph zones etc. No shortage of cash for that !!
If they are bankrupt, they are not allowed, under bankruptcy law, to charge or collect council tax or parking charges/fines. If enough people reported this then jail sentences would be handed out.
Sounds like the Sherriff of Nottingham & Sir Guy of Guisbourne has been at it again, where Is Robin Hood, Little John ,maid Marion & Friar tuck when they are needed ?
i think Robin Good and his men r the mass of immigrants those the government want you to hate lets face it none of what is said here is new. english people have never done anything about any of these crimes and you never spill blood unless its abroad gb is crime capital of the world arrogant little shits. u should all try reading and understanding the book of Revelation and ditch any other religeo bullcrap
Oxford City Council has wasted £1 million pounds on a failed IT project, reported in local press & by Councillors alike, they are denying it, failing to comply with FOI requests about it, refusing to publish the names or job titles of all those responsible for the fiasco, looks as though no one will accept responsibly or any liability, basically it’s business as usual just sweep it under the carpet, we have to assume that these people will get to keep their jobs & unjustifiable overinflated salaries.
How often do we see the situation. If you were say working in a small shop and the till was short at the end of the day. You would be expected to make up the shortfall out of your own money. There's never any accountability for this to happen with the people that run council's or big businesses. Council's just waste all the money on thing's that give them entertainment. Never spend properly on the thing's that the money was intended to pay for.
That's because they pay salaries 3x what you would get for doing the same job in the private sector. A lot of them are still working from home after Covid also.
Your council tax is not paid to your local council, it’s paid to a main hub and then it is distributed to all cities councils. Of course… seemingly not all of it.
But does this mean Councillors will loose their approximate £12.5k p/a income? Personaly I think Nottingham Councillors (including those who were councillors at the time of the 2020 Robin Hood Energy debabcle) should be sequestrated under the 1972 Local Gov't act firstly to repay the money lost by investing in the Robin Hood Energy scheme, and then to ensure their legal duty, - that Nottingham Shity Council balances its books. As to their excuses the coaliton gov't ended on 7th May 2015 nearly ten years ago, how can that be used as an excuse?
I was told that, you cant pay your council tax bill by cheque or cash anymore, only D/D or card. When you pay it, the sort code is that of central Government and not your local council 😮😮😮.
Yup all tax goes to central government and then they divvy it up back to local authorities based on the previous years spending. Please someone fact check me on this if I'm wrong or have missed anything. But this is why you suddenly see lots of activity with road works etc near the end of the tax year, because they need to justify next year's budget.
You can guarantee no one will be sacked for this, no one will be made redundant from this and those generous final salary pensions will continue to be paid even though a pension is not a service required by law! There will be no protests in Slab Square or marches around the city. There will no doubt be “administration fees” for sorting this mess out and a “Public Enquiry” costing tax payers’ even more money keeping the legal profession busy. The UK has basically become a 3rd world country with 1st world debt!
Labour or CON servetive still a council who pays money to government and we get nothing in return if I'm a subcontractor they are a business can I claim back at the end of the year my tax
The first authority to declare bankruptcy in the two decades following the fall of Hackney, the Conservative-run Northamptonshire County Council was forced to issue a section 114 notice after years of financial mismanagement that resulted in debts of close to £1 billion.
If I fall behind in my planned spending, I am liable to pay back every penny. So why can’t these Town Councils get a full accounting of where the funds went, who made that decision, how much was miss spent. What their spending is ,on office equipment, wages, meetings that take place out side the Council Premises, that could have been held with in. Every penny should have to be accounted for, those who have profiteered, or made obvious or dubious investments, should have to replace the funds, and take the consequences.
The icelandic people being slightly smarter that the shite you find in this country took down their government with pots and pans only to bring in a peoples gov then arrest their new primeminister a while later as he was a crook too (unless he was a good one they blackened i am not sure i lost interest in studying the situation at the time)The crime is that a local council had no faith in investing in their own people. The banking ressesion of 08 was started with the uk crimminal government granting the bank of england the right to set interest rates instead of the gov thus rampant lending began in the plan to wreck the banks an excuse to close branches and force cashless and more spying a offset the blame from gov bit like bmw starting Phoneix rover MG and killing the firm in someone elses name when they and the gov were responsible. i am asking you why these bank staff from this time period were allowed to live.
Yepp brand new Mercedes jeep rolls Royce even an astin Martin in thier nottingham city council are thief's steall all our money and live a lavish lifestyle
So does this mean, if you live in Nottinghamshire, you dont need to pay council tax any more???? 😊 Sounds like a good deal, hope Warwickshire follows suit soon! I could do with saving a few quid, i might even be able to tax my car again?
@@clivewilliams3661 but if they are bankrupt, how can they pursue non payment??? Bankruptcy means they can no longer afford to pursue anybody through the courts, so if you choose not to pay on the grounds that they are corrupt, inept , and fiscally stupid, will EVERYBODY in Nottinghamshire get a free pass.....
@@Craig-wp3pz A Council cannot technically be bankrupt as they cannot cease to exist. What happens is that they cannot satisfy their budget with the income, so they have to resort to providing only the services they are required to provide by law, this means that everything else ceases to function. The word bankrupt is used as a convenient way to describe to the general public the state of the finances. The Council will declare a Section 114 provision to the Govt that it can't meet its budget with its income and the Govt can advise certain courses of action, ultimately even taking over the running of the Council itself. At no time does the Council cease to exist as in a real bankruptcy.
@@anyeharmnon2895 I simply don't understand the point you are making?? Nottingham City Council cannot become bankrupt, its a legal impossibility, all that has happened is that they cannot set a budget within their income and by posting a Section 114 notice to the Govt they are stating the fact and expecting the Govt to assist them. They still have a duty to provide the services they must by law and collect Council rates. There are other public bodies that would be considered bankrupt in the private sector such as a great many of the Health Trusts but similarly they cannot become bankrupt because they are performing a public duty that cannot be done otherwise.
Here's a question. If your council becomes bankrupt, does that mean you should cancel your payments for council tax. Let's face it, if a business becomes insolvent, the first thing you would do is stop paying that business as you don't expect that business to provide the services you have been paying for!
I’m not surprised following their catastrophic venture in to trying to be an energy supplier rather than a COUNCIL THAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE !!!!!!!!!
Ask about Nottingham council investing money into Icelandic banking system that went belly up and a vast majority of council tax gets payed on pensions
sunderland councillors are the highest payed councillors in england, and in the last couple of years black people are increasing out of control.are these councillors getting a fat bank account for taking them in i wonder.
Not another one. I live near Nottingham. I'm shocked but after Birmingham, there's definitely something wrong. The question now is, what happens now?. Looks like the NHS, Money not going to where it's needed most..I recall reading about, Sheffield Council's, spending on drinks for staff, £28,000 for the year, that was in the early '90s. My rent went up suddenly, to £80 more. My friend lives in a nice Nottinghamshire village. No fire service Police, ambulance, not even a shop. But their council tax is sky-high. As for bedroom tax, Why do some get away with paying, if it's considered a prayer room?. I rang them, and asked if I could do the same, but they said no?. I nearly took a sledgehammer and knocked one of my walls down. The truth is, we just have too many people in the country, and the system can't cope. As for Robin Hood energy, I used a charity non-profit, utility company years ago, run by a millionaire, fed up, with utility companies ripping People off with High bills, to please greedy shareholders and the standing charge. It was the cheapest company out there. They Let Robin Hood energy run on their behalf, But the government, told them if they didn't, introduce a standing charge, they'd close them down, and that's what happened sadly. Just a Mayors banquet, costs thousands, just for the flower display, I knew someone who did them. Everything seems to be corrupt these days, the big cats, get the cream, as always. Thank you for making me aware of this story Andy.
Limited liability partnership = do F all and get away with it , for the amount we pay, our roads should be spot on, ????????, it’s more than time for answers.
I worked in local government finance for 20+ years at a large southern city. At that time 75% of the funding came from central government (income tax). The council tax paid by city residents was only 25% of the funding. Year after year central government cut its funding, insisting that we make economic savings. That can only continue so long. You also have to bear in mind that funding for improvement works like expanding schools, new roads, rebuilding etc. can’t be used for everyday services like looking after the elderly. Say a council spends a million pounds on its day to day services, a 2% cut in the £75m government funding would reduce its income by £1.5m To recover this by increasing the council tax of £25m would mean an increase of 6%. In addition to this there would need to be an increase to reflect inflation in the cost of providing services. For many years Councils were limited to how much they could increase the council tax and therefore services have been cut to the bone. It’s easy to see why councils are struggling to make ends meet. They are being given legal responsibilities to provide more services but not adequate extra funding. Birmingham and Nottingham are just the tip of the iceberg and I’m afraid to say more councils will follow.
Hull certainly is also, and is the reason I've withheld paying council tax. I have no contract with the company who is running hull, and won't be paying until the money goes to improving my city of hull. Not paid it since 2018 and the last bailiff that attended my house earlier this year lasted all of 2 mins before making his exit from my property, he looked rather bemused when he said are you Richard Bartlett and I replied "who I am is non of your business" he went to hand me a piece of paper and before fully holding the paper out he himself said "I guess your not taking this either", I replied no and that was it, or so he thought, with my confidence now fully up that I had him where I wanted him, I stopped him from walking away and gave him a ten minute lecture about him recording the conversation and why he was breaking rhe law as I live down an avenue with no public thoroughfare.
Hi Andy, EVERY Council, Local Authority etc, IS, a profit making entity with a Dunn and Bradstreet credit reference number, as allowed under the 1972 Local Authority Act. Check it out!! We are being taken for idiots!!! JMO!!!
Thurrock hit problems after a solar farm investment scheme failed to deliver, Nottingham was Robin Hood Energy and many of the others have made bad financial decisions - often about council buildings. All local authorities face challenges, but it is often the big "vanity" projects that has tipped them over the edge. Although Birmingham had a massive gender pay gap bill, they also blew £100m on an underperforming IT project, again they shouldn't have done this. I really cannot see how their IT needs a bespoke system along with many of the others doing the same. Pick the best and scrap the rest.
Will the Chief Officers immediately be sacked (without payoffs) for failing in there’re duties? Will Chief Officers over generous Pension Pots be seized to pay back debt? Sell off all the luxurious council offices and put the staff in Port-a Cabins. Scale back the gravy train including any payments to Councillors for attending meetings. That will soon sort out the finance.
Dont confuse a few badly run Councils with all the rest. If you want to pay a monthly fee to empty your bins, the electricity bills for the lights outside your house, school fees, leave anyone vulnerable to survive on their own, let the green spaces be built on because anyone can build whatever they want without planning permission, no road maintenance no traffic lights or any other safety feature, town centres to become no go areas because of beggars and drug addicts and so on then abolish them and live the dream of a US life style.
No electricity gas etc has to be free to all . i know what you are saying but broaden your mind the answers have been in front of you in the oldest book hidden by hearsay of babling vaticans and bullshit regulators all governments are illegal entities, you have no answers apart from recognising the the mini is infact an Italian car built in britain.
Don't forget that all the sub contractors to those bankrupt councils will now not get paid. That includes builders, gardeners, careworkers etc. They have wasted endless money on vanity and pointless projects and now ordinairy working people have been stiffed. Not to mention that your council tax goes into one big government pot, of which much has been sent to Ukraine, spent on HS2, housing migrants etc.
They want u and everyone else to think they wasted it all that was thier plan really they've pocketed probably 50 percent of it all and wasted the rest purposely now they will declare bankrupt and it will Al be swept under the rug they've probably all had a few million each put into thier foreign offshore accounts
i live in notts and funnily enough just had a final demand telling me to pay all the remaining amount in full, when ive inly missed one payment.....theyre getting desperate.....
Yep they've sent the bailiffs out in full force ive seen em all over the place how desperate and despicable that when they run out of our own money to spend on our own services they send a bunch of bully's to intimidate you for more money 😂😂😂😢
If local councils supposedly can't go bankrupt. and that they are supposed to be supported by Government, is this not just another move to centralise everything under one roof? All these local councillors will either be out of a job and in the same boat as us, or they will be working for the government on a lower wage but with little control or assistance for their residents?
The loss made in buying Robin Hood Energy currently stands at £54 million, and the overall loss, to this council, is expected to rise to £73 million in the longer term.
so another council has gone bust! subscribe if you think something fishy is going on! where is all the money from residents?
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Council tax where it goes!
It's in the Muslims bank accounts that work St the top of nottingham city council
As an ex-council employee I'm surprised every council doesn't go bankrupt. The level of incompetence and waste beggars belief.
Dover resident here. The council leader is on £250k per year. Just about every council employee im sure is an over paid gravy train riding lefty eco nut.
Yeah a mate works for the council and he working from home still, aka getting paid £40,000 a year to play FIFA on the PlayStation.
That's the money you know about, pre- graft.
Yep typical lefty thing 'work' for local authorities overpaid under worked plenty of sickness time of for nothing UNISON/UNITE making sure their every whim is catered for ,and since Kung Flu lots and lots of worky from homey ....luvly!
If you sacked everyone apart from the binmen would anybody notice ?
How about some sackings for miss management of public funding , or is that asking too much ?
Dont forget there are plently members of the public that need to join those decorations if they dont comply with putting them up
It's utterly laughable that councils are over spending to the point of bankruptcy yet they have literature & advice to citizens for debt advice 😂🤣
Yes exactly, talk about the kettle calling the pot 👍
I think they must be thinking the government will bail them out
@@celiabeverton4514 This appears to be the direction gvmt wants, whereby everything & everyone is somehow dependent on gvmt which gives gvmt maximum control over every aspect of our lives.
@@celiabeverton4514you mean taxpayers will bail them out!
In every language possible
No wonder these, 90% of councils, couldn't find Auditors to check their accounts, this is why so the overspending can't be checked.
A local council that has become a corporation ceases to be any form of local governance & certainly has no authority over anyone!
As I understand it, no corporate entity can ‘hold’ public office!
@@trappedinroom1014and no corporate entity can make you pay any money to them unless you have signed a contract with them.
Nottingham Council leader is on £182,000 pa,my own Council chief is on £149.000 with 5 staff members on £100,000 or more.
HMRC is also a corporation and i wrote to them stating i had no contract and was unwilling to pay them.
They ignored this,but i have issued a complaint .
It's a pity Richard Vobes does nothing but stir people up ,when he has all the contacts to actually form a group that could make a difference.
Had i been backed by 100,000 people HMRC would have been forced to think differently.
Common Law and The Constitution have never been needed more than they are now,as we see both local and National governments reaching far beyond their remits.
It's all bullshit mate, you'll just end up in prison or getting huge fines.
@@MattyEngland
Spoken by someone who's done no research and is clueless.
Well done.
@@davidbarlow350 I've done quite a bit of research on the subject. Plenty of people have tried it, literally none have been successful. The same people who want your taxes, are the same people who own the courts and write the laws. They closed all the loopholes a long time ago!
They don't need you to sign a contract or your agreement to charge you council tax or any other tax. Common law and/or the constitution count for nothing in their corrupt system. You will achieve nothing but making your situation worse.
There are many that have done so and are doing so, those who sell fear against what you have done are crimminals thank you for your encouragement the masses will join u, i d rather keep the local binmen and trash the government
you are a coward or a crimminal @@MattyEngland
And now look at the accounts of the European Union, they have NEVER had the books balanced or audited since inception. Thank god for brexit
Marta Andreason(?) ex EU chief accountant,wrote a book on her experiences.All those advocating in support of the EU should be compelled to read it.
That's not true.
@@chrisgray4651 really??? The accounts have never been signed off or audited by a reputable third party of accountants who use the standard reporting procedures the whole system is devoid of responsibility under accounting conventions
It is true and you are a degenerate.
Rue ,the remainders never mention that!
Im from Notts...
The council has no money,,, but they have plenty of rainbow flags in storage.
What amazed me was during the Tory/Lib Government Council Tax was frozen for English Council Tax Payers by increasing subsidy from central government but only if the council opened their financial accounts to central government. Nottingham did not so the Council Tax bills increased while most of the country had a four year bill freeze.
One of the highest council tax payers
Huge crimes and corruption in Birmingham Council, employers of criminals and deviants. 😮 god bless brother.
So many snouts, and just not enough swill in the trough.
Best thing is they offer debt advice on their website, must be advice on how to get into debt! 😂
Like every council up and down the country. Stop the corruption in all councils.
Rainbow flags are very expensive
In Mid Devon they lost £3.7 million though a silly building company they created that lost money. How a building company losses money when they effectively can build anything anywhere since they can give themselves pension to do anything.
They always have a strong of excuses don't they.They never cut from the top management,or their "pet" schemes,Diversity,green schemes,"vanity" profects.
👏👏👏
Thurrock Council lost one billion pounds, loaning money from other councils to invest in green energy solar project. The top executives did not care a toss, as none live in the borough so it not their money they lost.
They all walk away, nothing to see here, probably going to get another top executives job on a different Council.
There are now two confirmed councils on the verge of bankruptcy and I wonder how many more there are in the country that are keeping financial problems quiet at the moment. If you look at what the council tax is supposed to be used for, all these services have been stripped down as much as possible. I wonder just how much is down to bad investment and how much is due to skimming the top off the pot with stupidly high wages and un needy red tape administration along with vastly overpriced jobs for friends. Trust in the ruling bodies of the country is flailing badly when you look at what is happening on a daily basis I should imagine.
I seem to remember being told that a very large percentage of the council tax we pay goes into funding their retirees.
Yes, it is TRUE!
They ran out of other people's money 🙄
Hi Andy, I live in Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, but im under Broxtowe Council, under Nottinghamshire county Council. I do know, the council house is not Loxley house, its a registrar office and coroners court. The city council are on Station Street, as in the results you got on companies house. All the councils get bonuses when social services put an innocent child in adoption, and they are bullying parents right left and centre, so they must be shady about something
Councils trick motorists.with traps like no right turns.suddenly appearing.for.no reason on established routs.and short cuts. £130 to the.motorists
Shame.on them
Good reason to repair all the restrictions and not paying council tax
Could it be housing thousands in hotels? I bet this will be banned!
time to follow the money, what contracts have been awarded, who to, are they in private partnership with council, have any councilors got shares in these private companies, family members also. has any contracts be awarded to friends with kick backs. lets look at the accounts.
Tbh all the Muslims that are now top councillors I can garnatee you thier stealing huge amounts of money and it's helping them and thier fellow Muslims ☪️ just go to your local council office car parks and watch u will see the top councillors are Muslim and they drive either Mercedes rolls Royce or Aston Martin since Muslims have been given high up jobs in government and council etc huge mass amounts of money has been vanishing
I live in the kirklees area, and the council is bankrupt. They are closing care homes and sports centres, yet have, and still are, spending tens of millions on cycle lanes, speed bumps, road narrowing, 20mph zones etc. No shortage of cash for that !!
If they are bankrupt, they are not allowed, under bankruptcy law, to charge or collect council tax or parking charges/fines. If enough people reported this then jail sentences would be handed out.
The police are also on companies house as a for profit company. Can we demand to see the council accounts.
Looks like alot of councilors need their bank accounts investigating
It only works until they run out of other peoples money to spend. That's what they seem to forget it's other peoples money.
all the money went to DEI , ukraine , hamas, and everyone else except the British born english
theirs the truth right their
Sounds like the Sherriff of Nottingham & Sir Guy of Guisbourne has been at it again, where Is Robin Hood, Little John ,maid Marion & Friar tuck when they are needed ?
i think Robin Good and his men r the mass of immigrants those the government want you to hate lets face it none of what is said here is new. english people have never done anything about any of these crimes and you never spill blood unless its abroad gb is crime capital of the world arrogant little shits. u should all try reading and understanding the book of Revelation and ditch any other religeo bullcrap
also look and see who is in charge of the council ???????
Make them all give back their wages,boom coffers overflowing again
their steeling our money, so if you're not getting the service why are you paying?
I don't and I've stopped filling in my tax rtn
@@FredPerps well done
Hi Andy, not just council's, you have UK PLC, Scottish Gov, Welsh, Irish, all registered with a company based in New York. It's all a con
Australia too. Check out section 81 of our Constitution. We got the idea from the UK.
@@userefingname One big club and we ain't in it 😁
Oxford City Council has wasted £1 million pounds on a failed IT project, reported in local press & by Councillors alike, they are denying it, failing to comply with FOI requests about it, refusing to publish the names or job titles of all those responsible for the fiasco, looks as though no one will accept responsibly or any liability, basically it’s business as usual just sweep it under the carpet, we have to assume that these people will get to keep their jobs & unjustifiable overinflated salaries.
How often do we see the situation. If you were say working in a small shop and the till was short at the end of the day. You would be expected to make up the shortfall out of your own money. There's never any accountability for this to happen with the people that run council's or big businesses. Council's just waste all the money on thing's that give them entertainment. Never spend properly on the thing's that the money was intended to pay for.
Bet the migrant hotels won't be affected.
It all kicked off with woking borough council. where are they getting these chief financial officers from?
That's because they pay salaries 3x what you would get for doing the same job in the private sector.
A lot of them are still working from home after Covid also.
Labour Council again.....pattern here.
Your council tax is not paid to your local council, it’s paid to a main hub and then it is distributed to all cities councils. Of course… seemingly not all of it.
But does this mean Councillors will loose their approximate £12.5k p/a income? Personaly I think Nottingham Councillors (including those who were councillors at the time of the 2020 Robin Hood Energy debabcle) should be sequestrated under the 1972 Local Gov't act firstly to repay the money lost by investing in the Robin Hood Energy scheme, and then to ensure their legal duty, - that Nottingham Shity Council balances its books. As to their excuses the coaliton gov't ended on 7th May 2015 nearly ten years ago, how can that be used as an excuse?
I was told that, you cant pay your council tax bill by cheque or cash anymore, only D/D or card. When you pay it, the sort code is that of central Government and not your local council 😮😮😮.
Yup all tax goes to central government and then they divvy it up back to local authorities based on the previous years spending. Please someone fact check me on this if I'm wrong or have missed anything.
But this is why you suddenly see lots of activity with road works etc near the end of the tax year, because they need to justify next year's budget.
You are correct sir!
I know someone who works for Somerset council and they are in trouble
I live in Nottingham, the new central library has just opened this week which has probably cost a fair whack.
Thay library is for all the immigrants in the hotels to learn and read it not for us I can assure you of that
No one will ever know whats really gone on with all the money, it will be hushed up and swept under the carpet 🤮
You can guarantee no one will be sacked for this, no one will be made redundant from this and those generous final salary pensions will continue to be paid even though a pension is not a service required by law! There will be no protests in Slab Square or marches around the city. There will no doubt be “administration fees” for sorting this mess out and a “Public Enquiry” costing tax payers’ even more money keeping the legal profession busy. The UK has basically become a 3rd world country with 1st world debt!
So now they are bankrupt is it right that they can no longer demand money from anyone?
If Councils are Companies then we must all be Shareholders. How do we get our share of the profits?
Yet another Labour-run council doesn't understand the basics of financial management. God help us if Labour get into Government.
Labour or CON servetive still a council who pays money to government and we get nothing in return if I'm a subcontractor they are a business can I claim back at the end of the year my tax
The first authority to declare bankruptcy in the two decades following the fall of Hackney, the Conservative-run Northamptonshire County Council was forced to issue a section 114 notice after years of financial mismanagement that resulted in debts of close to £1 billion.
If I fall behind in my planned spending, I am liable to pay back every penny. So why can’t these Town Councils get a full accounting of where the funds went, who made that decision, how much was miss spent. What their spending is ,on office equipment, wages, meetings that take place out side the Council Premises, that could have been held with in. Every penny should have to be accounted for, those who have profiteered, or made obvious or dubious investments, should have to replace the funds, and take the consequences.
It was only a few years ago they had £40 million pounds stashed away in a icelantic off shore bank account so where has all that gone?
The icelandic people being slightly smarter that the shite you find in this country took down their government with pots and pans only to bring in a peoples gov then arrest their new primeminister a while later as he was a crook too (unless he was a good one they blackened i am not sure i lost interest in studying the situation at the time)The crime is that a local council had no faith in investing in their own people. The banking ressesion of 08 was started with the uk crimminal government granting the bank of england the right to set interest rates instead of the gov thus rampant lending began in the plan to wreck the banks an excuse to close branches and force cashless and more spying a offset the blame from gov bit like bmw starting Phoneix rover MG and killing the firm in someone elses name when they and the gov were responsible. i am asking you why these bank staff from this time period were allowed to live.
Somerset unitary authority,(created last year),now declaring an estimated £70million shortfall,next year.
Nottingham does have a HIGH PERCENTAGE of a migrant population.
If this was in the private sector the leader would never be able to be employed again. WHO do they employ these days = failures.
I bet they wasted most on diversity and lgbt "projects"
Go to any Council office staff car-park and take a look at the cars they drive, that will tell you all you need to know, nice houses too….✌🏻❤🇬🇧
Yepp brand new Mercedes jeep rolls Royce even an astin Martin in thier nottingham city council are thief's steall all our money and live a lavish lifestyle
So all of the bent deals are hitting the wall, now, are they?
So does this mean, if you live in Nottinghamshire, you dont need to pay council tax any more???? 😊
Sounds like a good deal, hope Warwickshire follows suit soon! I could do with saving a few quid, i might even be able to tax my car again?
It is Nottingham City Council that is in trouble, not the County and yes rates still have to be paid.
@@clivewilliams3661 but if they are bankrupt, how can they pursue non payment??? Bankruptcy means they can no longer afford to pursue anybody through the courts, so if you choose not to pay on the grounds that they are corrupt, inept , and fiscally stupid, will EVERYBODY in Nottinghamshire get a free pass.....
@@Craig-wp3pz A Council cannot technically be bankrupt as they cannot cease to exist. What happens is that they cannot satisfy their budget with the income, so they have to resort to providing only the services they are required to provide by law, this means that everything else ceases to function. The word bankrupt is used as a convenient way to describe to the general public the state of the finances. The Council will declare a Section 114 provision to the Govt that it can't meet its budget with its income and the Govt can advise certain courses of action, ultimately even taking over the running of the Council itself. At no time does the Council cease to exist as in a real bankruptcy.
@clivewilliams3661 no they don't unless you have signed a contract with them.
@@anyeharmnon2895 I simply don't understand the point you are making?? Nottingham City Council cannot become bankrupt, its a legal impossibility, all that has happened is that they cannot set a budget within their income and by posting a Section 114 notice to the Govt they are stating the fact and expecting the Govt to assist them. They still have a duty to provide the services they must by law and collect Council rates.
There are other public bodies that would be considered bankrupt in the private sector such as a great many of the Health Trusts but similarly they cannot become bankrupt because they are performing a public duty that cannot be done otherwise.
Diversity
So can they accept council tax if they no longer exist
Here's a question. If your council becomes bankrupt, does that mean you should cancel your payments for council tax. Let's face it, if a business becomes insolvent, the first thing you would do is stop paying that business as you don't expect that business to provide the services you have been paying for!
Now pay attention to who bails the city out , that’ll be the new owner.
This isn’t by chance that so many cities are bankrupt at the same time .
means the public have to seize their own property back from these crimminals, yes it is deliberate which is why government needs to be abolished asap
I’m not surprised following their catastrophic venture in to trying to be an energy supplier rather than a COUNCIL THAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE !!!!!!!!!
Ask about Nottingham council investing money into Icelandic banking system that went belly up and a vast majority of council tax gets payed on pensions
sunderland councillors are the highest payed councillors in england, and in the last couple of years black people are increasing out of control.are these councillors getting a fat bank account for taking them in i wonder.
Top heavy with management and paying them too much.
Not another one. I live near Nottingham. I'm shocked but after Birmingham, there's definitely something wrong. The question now is, what happens now?. Looks like the NHS, Money not going to where it's needed most..I recall reading about, Sheffield Council's, spending on drinks for staff, £28,000 for the year, that was in the early '90s. My rent went up suddenly, to £80 more. My friend lives in a nice Nottinghamshire village. No fire service Police, ambulance, not even a shop. But their council tax is sky-high. As for bedroom tax, Why do some get away with paying, if it's considered a prayer room?. I rang them, and asked if I could do the same, but they said no?. I nearly took a sledgehammer and knocked one of my walls down. The truth is, we just have too many people in the country, and the system can't cope.
As for Robin Hood energy, I used a charity non-profit, utility company years ago, run by a millionaire, fed up, with utility companies ripping People off with High bills, to please greedy shareholders and the standing charge. It was the cheapest company out there. They Let Robin Hood energy run on their behalf, But the government, told them if they didn't, introduce a standing charge, they'd close them down, and that's what happened sadly. Just a Mayors banquet, costs thousands, just for the flower display, I knew someone who did them.
Everything seems to be corrupt these days, the big cats, get the cream, as always. Thank you for making me aware of this story Andy.
People paid high salaries for sitting at home on the tippy tappy.
Their sensering comments.😂
Every council in the uk are franchise only.
What about the council that painted a wavy line on the road. Apparently its going to cost £135,000 to put it right. I would do it for £750
If it was the private sector all staff would be fired and shareholders would probably sue for gross incompetence.
Limited liability partnership = do F all and get away with it , for the amount we pay, our roads should be spot on, ????????, it’s more than time for answers.
I worked in local government finance for 20+ years at a large southern city. At that time 75% of the funding came from central government (income tax). The council tax paid by city residents was only 25% of the funding.
Year after year central government cut its funding, insisting that we make economic savings. That can only continue so long.
You also have to bear in mind that funding for improvement works like expanding schools, new roads, rebuilding etc. can’t be used for everyday services like looking after the elderly.
Say a council spends a million pounds on its day to day services, a 2% cut in the £75m government funding would reduce its income by £1.5m
To recover this by increasing the council tax of £25m would mean an increase of 6%. In addition to this there would need to be an increase to reflect inflation in the cost of providing services.
For many years Councils were limited to how much they could increase the council tax and therefore services have been cut to the bone.
It’s easy to see why councils are struggling to make ends meet. They are being given legal responsibilities to provide more services but not adequate extra funding. Birmingham and Nottingham are just the tip of the iceberg and I’m afraid to say more councils will follow.
Hull certainly is also, and is the reason I've withheld paying council tax.
I have no contract with the company who is running hull, and won't be paying until the money goes to improving my city of hull.
Not paid it since 2018 and the last bailiff that attended my house earlier this year lasted all of 2 mins before making his exit from my property, he looked rather bemused when he said are you Richard Bartlett and I replied "who I am is non of your business" he went to hand me a piece of paper and before fully holding the paper out he himself said "I guess your not taking this either", I replied no and that was it, or so he thought, with my confidence now fully up that I had him where I wanted him, I stopped him from walking away and gave him a ten minute lecture about him recording the conversation and why he was breaking rhe law as I live down an avenue with no public thoroughfare.
Yet another example of a council wasting taxpayers money.
Looks like the partying and gravy train has caught up with another council.
No one seems to talk about business tax .
Well, Happy Christmas to Nottingham.
Morning noise to pray will still be in place
money will be found for that
Hi Andy, EVERY Council, Local Authority etc, IS, a profit making entity with a Dunn and Bradstreet credit reference number, as allowed under the 1972 Local Authority Act. Check it out!! We are being taken for idiots!!! JMO!!!
Thurrock hit problems after a solar farm investment scheme failed to deliver, Nottingham was Robin Hood Energy and many of the others have made bad financial decisions - often about council buildings. All local authorities face challenges, but it is often the big "vanity" projects that has tipped them over the edge. Although Birmingham had a massive gender pay gap bill, they also blew £100m on an underperforming IT project, again they shouldn't have done this. I really cannot see how their IT needs a bespoke system along with many of the others doing the same. Pick the best and scrap the rest.
Y'all, I'm going to contact Sovereign Empowerment and stop paying council tax + get a refund.
I note that if a council ends up in this situation, they can hike bills higher than the 5% cap. Will more councils do this to massively hike bills?
Will the Chief Officers immediately be sacked (without payoffs) for failing in there’re duties? Will Chief Officers over generous Pension Pots be seized to pay back debt? Sell off all the luxurious council offices and put the staff in Port-a Cabins. Scale back the gravy train including any payments to Councillors for attending meetings. That will soon sort out the finance.
So do people carry on paying Council Tax to a "bankrupt company"?
I thought the same, would love to know. Also we shouldnt be paying terrorists!
Not surprise woke spending
Dont confuse a few badly run Councils with all the rest. If you want to pay a monthly fee to empty your bins, the electricity bills for the lights outside your house, school fees, leave anyone vulnerable to survive on their own, let the green spaces be built on because anyone can build whatever they want without planning permission, no road maintenance no traffic lights or any other safety feature, town centres to become no go areas because of beggars and drug addicts and so on then abolish them and live the dream of a US life style.
No electricity gas etc has to be free to all . i know what you are saying but broaden your mind the answers have been in front of you in the oldest book hidden by hearsay of babling vaticans and bullshit regulators all governments are illegal entities, you have no answers apart from recognising the the mini is infact an Italian car built in britain.
They may be on the run?
Don't forget that all the sub contractors to those bankrupt councils will now not get paid. That includes builders, gardeners, careworkers etc. They have wasted endless money on vanity and pointless projects and now ordinairy working people have been stiffed.
Not to mention that your council tax goes into one big government pot, of which much has been sent to Ukraine, spent on HS2, housing migrants etc.
They want u and everyone else to think they wasted it all that was thier plan really they've pocketed probably 50 percent of it all and wasted the rest purposely now they will declare bankrupt and it will Al be swept under the rug they've probably all had a few million each put into thier foreign offshore accounts
Wheres it gone? On invaders
I guess that's what will happen to all councils as we are pushed into a surveillance/15 min city 🙄
i live in notts and funnily enough just had a final demand telling me to pay all the remaining amount in full, when ive inly missed one payment.....theyre getting desperate.....
dont pay have a look at sovereign empowerment
Yep they've sent the bailiffs out in full force ive seen em all over the place how desperate and despicable that when they run out of our own money to spend on our own services they send a bunch of bully's to intimidate you for more money 😂😂😂😢
If local councils supposedly can't go bankrupt. and that they are supposed to be supported by Government, is this not just another move to centralise everything under one roof? All these local councillors will either be out of a job and in the same boat as us, or they will be working for the government on a lower wage but with little control or assistance for their residents?
Should we still be paying money ( council tax) into a bankrupt company?
The loss made in buying Robin Hood Energy currently stands at £54 million, and the overall loss, to this council, is expected to rise to £73 million in the longer term.