Elections

The people should stand up against stupid laws like Council Tax. How a common person can afford council tax, even people living in council houses are also paying council tax and now bedroom tax, from where lawmakers get these kinds of ideas.

Let’s picture this, a common person living in his/her own home with a mortgage, basically he/she is living in a bank-own house but people believe that the house belongs to them. They don’t think what if they fail to pay a mortgage or they get sick who is going to pay all the bills, humans get sick or die but bills don’t.

A person living with a mortgage, which he/she has to pay in around 25 years, for which he/she has to pay an amount every month otherwise he/she will lose his/her house and he/she will be on the streets with his/her whole family. Plus a person have to pay energy bills which are increasing day by day, water and sewage bill, Internet bill and top of all this a council tax, which is averagely around hundred pounds every month.

Every time, someone receives a letter from the council demanding council tax it tells how your money is going to be used, about £1000 pound for the city council per annum around £150 for the police and combined fire authority around £50.

Even an average city with about 100,000 homes, if you combine all this money it will sum up to lot of money. Where all this money is going?

If you see the cleaning situation of Nottingham city, the city that takes pride to be known as clean city, it’s not clean any more. There are dogs’ poo on the streets, trash bins filled with garbage no one has collected trash from the trash bins from a long time and there is garbage on the streets. If the city centre is clean that doesn’t mean the whole city is clean. The whole city doesn’t live in the city centre.

An average amount of people have cars, we all pay car tax. Why for? Are you really driving your cars on the “roads”? Almost all of the major roads and small roads have potholes. There is no such thing in the city where you can say that this is a proper smooth road. Instead of, providing with proper good roads the government is more interested in turning every road into 20 mph road. Why don’t the government simply ban all the cars and force everyone to buy bicycles. The kind of road are available you will hardly go over 20 mph. After that there are cameras everywhere. Everywhere in the city there are cameras; there are more cameras than people living in the city. Cameras on the traffic signals, cameras on the bus lanes they are even operational on bank holidays and after all this, the city have speed cameras and not just the permanent ones but vehicles standing over the footpaths with speed cameras in them. Please always bear in mind they are not there to enforce road speed but to generate revenue for the city.

The traffic situation getting worst in the Nottingham city, the traffic starts about 13:00 till 19:00. But the city is more interested in trams. The additional trams lines took about two years to get ready, it’s almost complete but no signs of trams running on them. The trams, which were functioning before the introduction of new tramlines even those, are disappeared from the tracks.

The city council have blocked every short cut in the streets, you have to take the long route from everywhere and have to stay on the main roads all the time. Why don’t they just unblock all the short cuts to divide the traffic so, there can be less burden on the main roads at the times of heavy traffic.

Bus fares and tram fares are unaffordable. How you are going to afford public transport?

We are also paying for the police. A year ago someone sold me a car not worthy of the road, I have been sold a trash for my money. I went to the police with witness and evidence, the police told me sorry we couldn’t do anything about it. What kind of police is this?

We are paying for recreational grounds, which are not taking care of properly.

Why we are paying for each and everything in the city. It’s like pay to live and where all this money is going. It’s corruption.

If we have to pay for each and every service so, why we need a council. Why don’t we just abolish all the councils to safe some money for ourselves and turn ourselves into small localities, where we pay for our own local services, roads etc. and we will more satisfied because we will be able to see our money where it has been spend.

In the coming elections, why we vote for the same people or party again who are in the government currently?