“ Perhaps LBB should not have returned that 1% of Council Tax all those ago. Added together over the years it would have amounted to a useful on-going sum. As it is, try cutting "Barnet First" - largely propaganda. LBB failure to sweep streets and clear drains sufficiently regularly means I as an 80 year old citizen have to sweep our frontage and the gutter opposite to prevent flooding.. These sweepings go into green bin, sometimes half-filling it, before we put in our garden waste. (Can I charge to off-set the proposed bin charge!) What about re-cycling? Are we to have more bonfires? Rotting piles to attract vermin? Don't LBB get money for selling waste to make compost?
It is surely a principle of local taxation that we pay contributions for the general benefit and do not pick and choose which services we will pay for. ”