Caught some of the PM's speech. Leadership questions aside, it's great to hear there are plans to move the UK closer back to Europe. This feels like a positive step towards helps jobs, trade, travel, and education between the UK and Europe, and hopefully in turn will help with the cost of living.
There's a series of local elections happening tomorrow, as well as Senedd and Scottish Parliament elections.
There's loads of aspects of local politics that impacts the cost of living, from the cost of council tax to local service provision. Would be really interested to hear, considering the cost of living specifically, who people are voting for tomorrow. And if you can't vote, who would you vote for?
Fall behind on council tax and the system basically goes, now pay all of it immediately, I knew council tax debt was rough, but not this rough!
Apparently if you were to miss a few payments (because life happens!) councils can cancel your instalment plan and demand the full year’s bill in one go.
It’s “pay the entire year now or we escalate” if someone has missed a few months payments how are they supposed to pay a year's bill upfront?
This is finally changing! It's a great win which I haven't been seeing talked about much so thought I'd post here.