UK Government considering increasing council tax to cover costs of social care - Polidicks

[URL="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/dec/12/council-tax-hike-being-considered-to-cover-social-care-costs"]Source.[/URL] [QUOTE] Ministers are looking at increasing council tax to pay for social care but have been warned that it will not tackle funding problems which are “out of control”. Experts, including the former Tory health secretary Stephen Dorrell, have warned of a growing cash crisis hitting local government and the NHS. The government is preparing to allow tax precepts to be increased so local councils, which have suffered reductions in government grants totalling more than 40% since 2010, can claw in extra cash to cover the spiralling social care costs. Izzi Seccombe, the Conservative chair of the Local Goverment Association’s community wellbeing board, confirmed that the idea of an increase in the precept was being considered. “We have had some dialogue with ministers about this,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday. But she said the money raised from such a move would not be enough. Seccombe pointed out a 2% increase in precept imposed by most councils last year raised only £380m, which was not enough to pay the £600m needed to cover increased staff costs under the “national living wage”. She also warned that a rise in council tax would create a postcode lottery in services because richer areas could raise more than poorer areas where the need is greatest. Seccombe called for emergency funding. “We need an injection now of £1.3bn because there is a shortfall by the end of 2020 of £2.6bn.”[/QUOTE] Fucking disgusting. Allow companies to get a break on tax whilst the rest of us have to shoulder the consequences of the government reducing funding to OUR social programs.

So we wanna lower corporation tax and then do this? whew

nice is some next level shitposting from the UK government here. ｗｅｗ ｌａｄ

My British passport is becoming increasingly less useful

Classic Tories. They're ideologically opposed to the very concept of social care, yet require old people to vote for them. What a pickle.

Someone get me out of this ever devolving country. Tories are the classic Fox and the Scorpion story, requiring the fox (the public) to get them across the water into parliament then just stinging them whilst they do it.

this government gets fundamentally more retarded by the day

[QUOTE=Hamsteronfire;51519844]this government gets fundamentally more retarded by the day[/QUOTE] It's all the same shit Cameron and Osborne have been doing since 2015 and had been trying to do since 2010, but Theresa May gives even less of a shit what people think of her because she knows she can get the support of 52% of the country just by continuing to do what the Government's been asked to do. Meanwhile, the Left is running out of feet to shoot and noses to cut off, whilst UKIP gladly snatches up the votes of people who don't want to vote Tory but can't stand the absurdity of everyone else (since, after all, you can't trust any stories about UKIP- they're MSM 'fake news'!). Jonathan Pie should be mandatory viewing for Brits right now. [editline]13th December 2016[/editline] The Tories would gladly privatise everything if people wouldn't hate them for it, but instead they just have to run our public services into the ground until we have 'no other choice'.

This is bullshit, I hate this government more and more every week. More bullshit ideas and policies coming from them every day. I even emailed a local MP and got a pretty shit response (written mind you, in a fancy envelope which prob costed about £40 and whatever else to send it) but they are still wasting time and money on nonsense. I agree, the Tories would privatise, then more than likely sell it off to the highest bidder [sp]Royal Mail[/sp]. This needs to change

The UK inches towards a strange dystopic environment every week. We're watching the future unfold at the hands of these inconsiderate, soulless twats at the helm of a sinking ship, but rather than try and save it they're driving it into the ground so they can sell the scrap to buy a life boat.

Every day I see the news I start thinking. "once I get my masters should I jump ship while I have no dependencies"

[QUOTE=lordofdafood;51521490]Every say I see the news I start thinking. "once I get my masters should I jump ship while I have no dependancies"[/QUOTE] Luckily, my line of work doesn't require a location per-say. Soon as I have the opportunity, I'm jumping off this sinking ship.

[QUOTE=Hogie bear;51521579]Luckily, my line of work doesn't require a location per-say. Soon as I have the opportunity, I'm jumping off this sinking ship.[/QUOTE] The tories are actually super egalitarian. Their plan to improve the world is to export smart people by enacting policies to encourage major brain drain in the UK

[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;51521695]The tories are actually super egalitarian. Their plan to improve the world is to export smart people by enacting policies to encourage major brain drain in the UK[/QUOTE] Britain's biggest export "Runaway graduate students"

[QUOTE=joshthesmith;51520089]This is bullshit, I hate this government more and more every week. More bullshit ideas and policies coming from them every day. I even emailed a local MP and got a pretty shit response (written mind you, in a fancy envelope which prob costed about £40 and whatever else to send it) but they are still wasting time and money on nonsense. I agree, the Tories would privatise, then more than likely sell it off to the highest bidder [sp]Royal Mail[/sp]. This needs to change[/QUOTE] And as they continue their circlejerk trying to do this, the national rail system remains a prime example of privatising things leads to massive crashes in quality, as evidenced by the Southern Rail situation.

[QUOTE=Levelog;51522273]Britain's biggest export "Runaway graduate students"[/QUOTE] since 2010 [editline]13th December 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Terminutter;51522373]And as they continue their circlejerk trying to do this, the national rail system remains a prime example of privatising things leads to massive crashes in quality, as evidenced by the Southern Rail situation.[/QUOTE] our rail system doesn't require renationalisation, it needs further regulation in the vein of consumer protection or we could go the german route with a buyout of franchises with a government-backed rail company