Council Tax Rise - who voted for what.

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

From Hartlepool Independent Group's FB page - a video of the full council meeting showing exactly who voted for & against the 3.9% increase in council tax.

https://www.facebook.com/HartlepoolIndependentGroup/videos/vb.128452474031134/2233040950348062/?type=2&theater

[Land Phil]

Cons and Lab still in bed together.

[diSme]

Whatever keeps the pennies rolling in for the cabal

[Gustaf I of England + BWH]

I didn't have the sound on, so couldn't hear what was being said, but going by the counters it appeared that Ged Hall still supports Labour - despite what they did to him before he jumped ship.

[Inspector Knacker]

Cons and Lab still in bed together.

A marriage of convenience, but an inconvenience for the rest of us

[Owen Jones]

Does anyone know if any local council's didn't increase their council tax
? I don't think many will have not

[Lucy Lass-Tick]

Maybe is isn't the actual rise in CT that concerns people so much as HBC's somewhat lax attitude to money when it comes to their pet projects? Add that to a failure to collect business rates from favoured individuals (and I know - you can't get money from a defunct company but when someone's built up previous debts a more robust attitude to credit control would have helped). Also, the 31% allowance rise really did rile a lot of people. Residents might well have been less critical if they honestly believed that the council had tried to balance the books but they couldn't do so; but when they're perceived to be spending their money like sailors in port censure and indignation are likely to follow.