Dear All
No one likes to pay bills!
Aside from losing money, the time factor of
having to stand in a queue isn’t good.
Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond got
wiped out in an epic defeat on the 18th September, I take pride in
the fact I helped to defend my community, in Govan, I had helped to save both
Govan shipbuilders and the BBC.
The staff at both of these institutions
would have found themselves unemployed, the orders from the UK to build
warships would have dried up and the BBC would have been shut down because the
Nationalists hate it.
In the drive for independence, the SNP and
their allies signed up many people to vote for them and their poisonous vision,
people who had disappeared from the voters roll suddenly popped back up. One of the reasons that some people disappeared was to
avoid paying council tax.
In an act lacking personal and professional
integrity the loser Alex Salmond has decided to bring in new legislation to
prevent councils from collecting "ancient" debts resulting from the
Poll Tax.
I had to pay that crap, so it is only right
that the hundreds of millions owed by others should also be recovered as well.
Salmond said:
"After 25 years it is about time that the
Poll Tax was finally dead and buried in Scotland."
The poll tax was a disaster for the Tories
right across Britain and the idea was dreamed up in Scotland. This is one of
the main reasons that saw the Scottish Conservatives become a mainstream but fringe
party until the list system allowed them back at Holyrood. There is one Tory MP
in Scotland. Recently David Cameron gave a speech wanting more, given the result
of the referendum and the fact Ukip has emerged as a force in British politics.
Things might become tight if he loses his working class voters to Nigel Farage.
The Poll Tax, was introduced by Margaret
Thatcher when she was prime minister who became a hate figure in Scotland, when
she died some people were celebrating her death as some sort of victory.
It showed Scotland in a rather bad light.
At the height of the large scale
non-payment campaign and major protests, out popped Tommy Sheridan who made a
name for himself in Pollok and on the wider political scene as a campaigner.
There were massive protests and riots, the aftermath left a bitter taste in the
minds of Scots that England was using Scotland as a guinea pig for every dirty
little act to be put upon the poor and disadvantaged.
Before it was rolled out across the UK.
Before it was rolled out across the UK.
And it was noticed by the people that Scotland
was being treated this way which ensured the Scottish Tory brand became toxic
and remained so to present day.
Salmond announced yesterday that councils
would not be able to take any further action to recover Poll Tax debts. His
take on the charge is:
"It is over 20 years since the Poll
Tax came to an end and I believe the expanded electoral roll should not be used
to collect poll tax debts."
It seems that Salmond
and the SNP want try and keep voters who registered in the referendum and get them
to vote in the Westminster 2015 election for the SNP.
I would say this is an
abuse of power and I would also say people paid this charge acting in good
faith, will they be getting their money back?
The answer is of
course no, the law shouldn’t be used for personal advantage of the few over the
many, this shows how Scots were right to reject independence, the SNP is a pathetic
excuse for a political party, this is just another symptom of what happens having
the wrong people in charge.
Will Scotland’s
unpopular Deputy First Minster Nicola Sturgeon speak out to reverse this decision,
probably not; she is in my opinion rather common, a little schemer with no
statesmanlike qualities about her.
And how Scotland will
suffer for it when she becomes leader of the SNP!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human
Rights at Glasgow University
2 comments:
its like watching a car crash :(
Crookie
If Salmond and his clique bring in laws that stop councils chasing "missing voters" for unpaid poll tax, then what about bringing in a law to pay back everyone who paid their poll tax over the years!! Thank God you're going Salmond because you are a curse to Scotland, and take that Sturgeon with you.
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