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Conservatives to freeze council tax for 2 years
At the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, George Osborne has just promised to freeze council tax for at least 2 years.
Rather ironically, I found out the news whilst waiting in the ridiculously long queue in Nationwide’s Gillingham branch – reading the subtitles on the BBC News 24 broadcast.
Mr Osborne’s pledge – that a Conservative government will freeze English council tax bills for at least two years – will come as welcome news to hard-pressed families who have seen dramatic rises in their council tax bills after 11 years of a Labour government.
Mr Osborne himself today looked very much how a Chancellor-in-waiting should look. There was no walking around on stage with no notes. Instead, standing at the lectern, Osborne looked calm yet informed, relax yet in control. Mr Osborne looks ready to step up to the plate were an election to take place tomorrow.
Given the credit crunch hitting families hard, worrying about whether or not their money is safe, it is refreshing to know that council tax, at least, will not rise in the first two years of a Conservative government. And nor should it.
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This was a very good announcement, and has been well-received by people to whom I have spoken so far.
Hardly surprising: the frankly cowardly manipulation of the Council Tax by Gordon Brown over a decade (that caused the tax to double over that period) has brought it into disrepute, though it isn’t the tax itself that is to blame.
I have been reading several commentaries on this announcement, and the Osborne speech in general, and it does seem to be just about the best way forward we could hope for in the prevailing circumstances. It will mean suspending fiscal rules to an extent, for the duration (which hasn’t pleased the Burning Your Money folk) but I don’t see any other way out, despite the dangers.
Overall, no-one else is going to get our country back on its feet again ? absolutely no-one in the entire universe.
We are all going to have to fully support Osborne, Cameron and the rest of the Shadow Cabinet et al, otherwise the burden that will still be dropped on the upcoming generation’s shoulders (and that means yours, Alan!) will remain at a crippling level of severity.