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Just got my 2019/2020 council tax bill, and the line item for "Police" is increasing over 12%!
How is that possible. Thanks to a really, really dirty Tory Party trick. They greatly raised the cap on the amount local councils are allowed to spend on policing.
How is that possible. Thanks to a really, really dirty Tory Party trick. They greatly raised the cap on the amount local councils are allowed to spend on policing.
This allows the Government to claim that more money is going into the police (because local councils are spending more) while spreading all the responsibility and blame onto them.
Why is any of this necessary? Because central police funding has been cut and cut and cut.
Why is any of this necessary? Because central police funding has been cut and cut and cut.
It's like your boss saying "Sure, you can have a pay rise. No, *I'm* not going to pay you more. In fact I might cut your salary again. But I'll let you jack the price we charge customers up, and keep some of the difference."
But when faced with that huge increase on their council tax bill, most people won't bother to connect the dots. They'll just bemoan the careless profligacy of their local council, unaware that the rise was imposed by circumstances engineered by central Government over many years.
