| My council tax bill 18:37 - Apr 20 with 694 views | britferry |
WTF is "The Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales" ??? |  |
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| My council tax bill on 18:42 - Apr 20 with 683 views | Joe_bradshaw |
You can vote for the next one in May.
It’ll almost certainly be Alun Michael yet again. |  |
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| My council tax bill on 18:49 - Apr 20 with 674 views | britferry |
| My council tax bill on 18:42 - Apr 20 by Joe_bradshaw |
You can vote for the next one in May.
It’ll almost certainly be Alun Michael yet again. |
but what the hell are we paying for? | |
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| My council tax bill on 18:49 - Apr 20 with 669 views | onehunglow |
It' s simply a position we don' t need. Jobs for the boys. | |
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| My council tax bill on 18:49 - Apr 20 with 674 views | raynor94 |
| My council tax bill on 18:42 - Apr 20 by Joe_bradshaw |
You can vote for the next one in May.
It’ll almost certainly be Alun Michael yet again. |
The Alun Michael from Cardiff you mean. |  |
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| My council tax bill on 18:50 - Apr 20 with 674 views | YrAlarch |
A total waste of taxpayers money. They have all built a mini empire for themselves with lots of staff, office equipment and stationery.
Bureaucracy begets bureaucracy. | | | |
| My council tax bill on 19:19 - Apr 20 with 652 views | KeithHaynes |
| My council tax bill on 18:50 - Apr 20 by YrAlarch |
A total waste of taxpayers money. They have all built a mini empire for themselves with lots of staff, office equipment and stationery.
Bureaucracy begets bureaucracy. |
Very Spanish is Wales. |  |
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| My council tax bill on 19:27 - Apr 20 with 644 views | Catullus |
| My council tax bill on 18:49 - Apr 20 by britferry |
but what the hell are we paying for? |
Have you not been paying attention? This has been on the Council tax bill since 2012, don't you look? | |
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| My council tax bill on 19:53 - Apr 20 with 620 views | Scotia |
We can't blame Drakeford / labour for this. I think it was one of Cameron's ideas
Completely pointless position, I'll definitely be spoiling that ballot paper on the 6th | | | |
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| My council tax bill of on 19:58 - Apr 20 with 609 views | felixstowe_jack |
| My council tax bill on 19:53 - Apr 20 by Scotia |
We can't blame Drakeford / labour for this. I think it was one of Cameron's ideas
Completely pointless position, I'll definitely be spoiling that ballot paper on the 6th |
Of course we can blame Drakeford and the local councils they set the rates bill which all depends how much of the annual increase in the budget for Wales is passed onto the local councils. | |
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| My council tax bill of on 22:07 - Apr 20 with 567 views | Scotia |
| My council tax bill of on 19:58 - Apr 20 by felixstowe_jack |
Of course we can blame Drakeford and the local councils they set the rates bill which all depends how much of the annual increase in the budget for Wales is passed onto the local councils. |
Yes, but this thread is specifically about the police and crime commissioner. | | | |
| My council tax bill of on 22:13 - Apr 20 with 560 views | majorraglan |
| My council tax bill of on 19:58 - Apr 20 by felixstowe_jack |
Of course we can blame Drakeford and the local councils they set the rates bill which all depends how much of the annual increase in the budget for Wales is passed onto the local councils. |
I’d like to see Councils forced to show both this year’s and and last year’s council tax figures on the bills so people can make direct comparisons. The figures are going up as the central government are cutting the central funding. | | | |
| My council tax bill on 22:15 - Apr 20 with 555 views | builthjack |
Cameron brought this one along about 8 or 9 years ago. |  |
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| My council tax bill on 22:17 - Apr 20 with 556 views | Brynmill_Jack |
| My council tax bill on 19:27 - Apr 20 by Catullus |
Have you not been paying attention? This has been on the Council tax bill since 2012, don't you look? |
Well it’s not Tescos, you can’t get a refund can you ? |  |
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| My council tax bill on 22:18 - Apr 20 with 555 views | majorraglan |
| My council tax bill on 18:49 - Apr 20 by britferry |
but what the hell are we paying for? |
A sizeable portion of South Wales Police’s annual income.
I totally disagree with the Police Commissioners belonging to political parties, whilst the police must be accountable to the public, I don’t believe it’s appropriate for politicians to be in charge of the police. Whoever is in charge of the police should be completely independent.
For what it’s worth I have met the guy in charge of the Dyfed Powys police and he’s a really tidy guy, he’s not your typical politician, he’s very honest and cares about his community. [Post edited 20 Apr 2021 22:36]
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| My council tax bill on 22:29 - Apr 20 with 539 views | Brynmill_Jack |
| My council tax bill on 22:18 - Apr 20 by majorraglan |
A sizeable portion of South Wales Police’s annual income.
I totally disagree with the Police Commissioners belonging to political parties, whilst the police must be accountable to the public, I don’t believe it’s appropriate for politicians to be in charge of the police. Whoever is in charge of the police should be completely independent.
For what it’s worth I have met the guy in charge of the Dyfed Powys police and he’s a really tidy guy, he’s not your typical politician, he’s very honest and cares about his community. [Post edited 20 Apr 2021 22:36]
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Bring back Commissioner Gordon that’s what I say | |
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| My council tax bill of on 09:07 - Apr 21 with 490 views | felixstowe_jack |
| My council tax bill of on 22:07 - Apr 20 by Scotia |
Yes, but this thread is specifically about the police and crime commissioner. |
You have always paid for the police through your rates bill , just it has now been highlighted just how much you pay. I am all for transparency. | |
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| My council tax bill of on 09:09 - Apr 21 with 489 views | Catullus |
| My council tax bill of on 22:13 - Apr 20 by majorraglan |
I’d like to see Councils forced to show both this year’s and and last year’s council tax figures on the bills so people can make direct comparisons. The figures are going up as the central government are cutting the central funding. |
I thought local councils actually had more money from the Senedd this year? That's why there's been so much fuss. | |
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| My council tax bill of on 09:21 - Apr 21 with 486 views | felixstowe_jack |
| My council tax bill of on 09:09 - Apr 21 by Catullus |
I thought local councils actually had more money from the Senedd this year? That's why there's been so much fuss. |
Well the Welsh assembly budget from Westminster goes up by more than inflation each year while the funding on average to the local councils goes up by less than inflation. The assembly keeps more money each year for it's pet projects, like £120 million spent deciding not to build the M4 relief road. That is enough money to fund 900 social houses. | |
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| My council tax bill of on 21:09 - Apr 22 with 405 views | Kilkennyjack |
| My council tax bill of on 09:21 - Apr 21 by felixstowe_jack |
Well the Welsh assembly budget from Westminster goes up by more than inflation each year while the funding on average to the local councils goes up by less than inflation. The assembly keeps more money each year for it's pet projects, like £120 million spent deciding not to build the M4 relief road. That is enough money to fund 900 social houses. |
Westmonster spends £205 billion to replace Trident.
That should be money for the parts of the UK that need it.
£50m is spent on the English Ballet ffs. |  |
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| My council tax bill of on 21:20 - Apr 22 with 386 views | raynor94 |
| My council tax bill of on 21:09 - Apr 22 by Kilkennyjack |
Westmonster spends £205 billion to replace Trident.
That should be money for the parts of the UK that need it.
£50m is spent on the English Ballet ffs. |
After watching Billy Elliott, worth every penny. | |
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| My council tax bill of on 22:12 - Apr 22 with 368 views | Catullus |
| My council tax bill of on 21:09 - Apr 22 by Kilkennyjack |
Westmonster spends £205 billion to replace Trident.
That should be money for the parts of the UK that need it.
£50m is spent on the English Ballet ffs. |
That's not an accurate figure, it was estimated by CND wasn't it?
Here, from the commons library,
A decision to replace the Polaris nuclear deterrent system with Trident was made in July 1980, under the terms of the Polaris sales agreement 1963, as amended for Trident (Treaty Series 086/1980) and (Treaty Series 008/1983).
The then Defence Secretary Francis Pym made a statement to the House on the replacement of the UK’s Polaris strategic nuclear deterrent system with Trident. In that statement he confirmed that the capital cost of procuring Trident would be taken out of the existing defence budget. He added that the deterrent “is a weapons system, like any other weapons system” and will be accommodated within the defence budget “in the same way as Polaris was accommodated 10 to 20 years ago”. In terms of costs, he estimated at its peak Polaris will account for about 5% of the whole defence budget and 8% of the equipment part of the budget.
By the time of the 1998 Strategic Defence Review (SDR) the majority of costs associated with procuring Trident had been spent. The SDR subsequently put total acquisition expenditure on the Trident programme at £12.52 billion, which equates to approximately £18.7 billion in 2019-20 prices.
However, it should be noted that this did not represent a doubling of costs on the Trident programme. Once inflation over the period 1980-1998 is accounted for, according to the Treasury’s GDP deflator £5 billion in 1980 was worth approximately £12 billion in 1998.
If it is 205 billion then it's the cost of running Trident over it's lifespan, it's not an upfront payment.
How much have the Senedd spent on Cardiff airport? I know for sure it runs at a loss for every single passenger who uses it. | |
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