Fighting council tax banding is not fun. The Valuations Office are refusing to even look at my case unless I can provide them with evidence of an identical house in a lower band in my local area with sales evidence from 1991. This is hard when the whole area wasn't built until the late 90s and most were built as self-builds for people who wanted to retain the houses so they weren't sold for a very long time. I've pointed out my next door neighbour's house is roughly the same floor area as mine and is a band lower but that's not sufficiently similar apparently. Next door is 2 storey and mine is 3. Technically this means the space I've wasted on a second flight of stairs is an extra bedroom next door but they still won't look at it.
They also won't allow me to compare my house to other houses in the same band for some reason. The biggest house in my street has 2 more bedrooms and 60m2 more floor area but we're in the same band. We may be top and bottom of the same band but I really doubt it. They say that showing evidence of high values in the same band doesn't mean that my house isn't in the same band. I'm not sure why it's up to me to provide proof of their working out though?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Whichever politician is talking, that's the one is the biggest liar. Then when the next talks they're the biggest liar.
How can you tell me when a politician is lying, his mouth is moving!
Then they're SpAds are worse. Every half decent PM is only half decent because that's the lies spun by the pr guru spin doctor. Thatcher had a good one, Bliar had a very good one, Brown I think didn't. Major didn't but that guy kept his extra material quiet in parliament circles with all the gossipers there. So either his spin doctor was very good and kept too busy keeping that quiet or Major was a good deceiver!!!
Sorry if politics makes me even more curmudgeonly cynical than normal. It's what you get when you've got a poor government and an even worse opposition.
This will be an unpopular viewpoint but, in the main, I think our politicians do a very difficult job reasonably well. I don’t subscribe to the commonly aired opinion that they’re venal, lying incompetents, out to line their pockets and serve their own interests.
One thing I do know: I would not want to do their job. Like football managers, politicians know that the rest of the country believes they could do the job better (without ever putting themselves to the test) and wastes no time in voicing that opinion.
my local MP Geoffrey Cox manages to earn £750,000 a year in legal work whilst working as a " full time " MP. He once got ticked off for " forgetting to declare" £300,000 of income and then was promoted to Attorney General. Imagine someone on benefits " forgetting" to declare £300K in income Pigs in a trough
Signing an agreement now seems to be somewhat ambivalent - according to a Govt. spokesman.........."It depends what you mean by signing" courtesy of Farming Today. I felt very sorry for the presenter who asked the question
Did he go on to explain alternative meanings for "signing"? There is the language of the deaf. Maybe he was speaking to them and signed the word "agreement" I can't think of any other, apart from what you do on the dotted line with a pen @philippasmith2
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How can you tell me when a politician is lying, his mouth is moving!
Then they're SpAds are worse. Every half decent PM is only half decent because that's the lies spun by the pr guru spin doctor. Thatcher had a good one, Bliar had a very good one, Brown I think didn't. Major didn't but that guy kept his extra material quiet in parliament circles with all the gossipers there. So either his spin doctor was very good and kept too busy keeping that quiet or Major was a good deceiver!!!
Sorry if politics makes me even more curmudgeonly cynical than normal. It's what you get when you've got a poor government and an even worse opposition.
One thing I do know: I would not want to do their job. Like football managers, politicians know that the rest of the country believes they could do the job better (without ever putting themselves to the test) and wastes no time in voicing that opinion.
He once got ticked off for " forgetting to declare" £300,000 of income and then was promoted to Attorney General.
Imagine someone on benefits " forgetting" to declare £300K in income
Pigs in a trough
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I can't think of any other, apart from what you do on the dotted line with a pen @philippasmith2