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The system relies on valuations from 1991, when Gorbachev was in power, but has become politically untouchable“It’s a fairness thing. Just the idea that somebody sitting in a two-bedroom house in Hartlepool is paying more council tax than somebody who’s living in a mansion – it’s just offensive.”The Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash, Hartlepool’s MP, is on a mission to draw attention to an issue he jokingly calls “the third rail of British politics” – because no mainstream party, including his own, wants to touch it for fear of electoral death. Continue reading…
The system relies on valuations from 1991, when Gorbachev was in power, but has become politically untouchable
“It’s a fairness thing. Just the idea that somebody sitting in a two-bedroom house in Hartlepool is paying more council tax than somebody who’s living in a mansion – it’s just offensive.”
The Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash, Hartlepool’s MP, is on a mission to draw attention to an issue he jokingly calls “the third rail of British politics” – because no mainstream party, including his own, wants to touch it for fear of electoral death.
