FINANCIAL RAPE - Councillors Goring and Himmler, found a way to fleece more innocent victims, on their way to the (virtual) gas chambers of commerce. At least property owners get a nice shower on their way to the cremation pits. Wealden, going up in economic flames, as they find their Final Solution! You tell us, what is the difference between such actions and Nazi Germany? And they are all working from home, so, probably watching TV instead of working for your money. All to retire nice and safe, on a fat pension. For which, all they have to do is not rock the boat.

Why are the taxes so high is Wealden and East Sussex?

You may think it is like living in a Concentration Camp, with so little left to live on, after all your bills are paid. An then the Council come knocking at your door like the Sheriff of Nottingham, asking for more, to pay for their enhanced pensions, working from home, and SLAPP actions undertaking by Sussex police, should you decide to report suspected criminal activity to the Crime Commissioner. And, just one letter will trigger, arrests, searches of your home and confiscation of equipment, and then prosecution. All at the public expense.

At least in Nazi Germany, you knew they were going to kill you, and confiscate your worldly goods. You were shipped on a train to Treblinka, stripped, shoved into a gas chamber, then cremated in pits - by the thousands - millions actually. The Nazi eugenics programme was against the Jews, Soviets, Slavs and Gypsies mainly. Here in East Sussex, they target low income families.

In a more and more authoritarian England, or rather in East Sussex and Wealdenland, Council officers and member councillors, have changed the rules to, "effectively," steal all your reserve cash. They are raking it is via unfair Council Taxes, knowing they will never be called out, and are allowed to refuse any kind of explanation. Ve vill ask der qvestions. It's very Nazi in concept.

UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S NO JOKE - The Anti-Christ of British politics, candidates like Boris Johnson and Margaret Thatcher, treat the electorate like disposable assets. British Empire days and slavery - with no thought of fairness or being reasonable. Hopefully, the Big Red Bus 'lie' will at some point change British statute, to prevent the lesser informed electorate from being deceived, and so, in effect, voting to increase national debt and ultimately hardship. Election campaign rules in the UK should carry a Government Health Warning. Invest in gold, don't trust the State. The UK has sold off all their gold. Just printing paper, like the hyperinflation in Germany after WWI. You'd need a wheelbarrow load of Marks to buy a loaf of bread.

Then there are the potholes, a total lack of any genuinely affordable houses in Band A, and high food and energy prices to cap that. And the less said about the lack of infrastructure for EVs, the better. It feels like being shackled in a Roman Galley; where they make you row until you drop. And when you are dead, they pick over the corpse, with death duties.

But all of that money, goes back into the political Black Hole that is our economy.

* There will no longer be a 50% reduction in council tax liability for properties that are undergoing renovations that render them uninhabitable. This will end on 31st March 2023.

* Properties that have been empty for between 2 to 5 years will be subject to a 100% premium on top of the council tax charge. This will affect dwellings which are unoccupied and substantially unfurnished.

* For propertied that remain empty between 5 and 10 years the premium will rise to 200%, with a 300% premium being applied to any property that has been empty for 10 years or more.

THIS IS HOW WEALDEN EXPLAIN YOUR COUNCIL TAX FOR 2023 to 2024 - AND THEY WILL NOT TOLERATE ANYONE QUESTIONING THEIR EXPENDITURE, OR THE VALIDITY OF THEIR (HOLIDAY) PLANS

This information was taken from Wealden's website, a page that in their view, adequately sets out how your council tax is spent on services in your community and explains about discounts and help with payments, all of which is really a ruse to persuade you not to question what they are up to. Is it all a massive confidence trick?

Council tax is collected on houses, flats and other domestic properties. The money is collected by Wealden District Council on behalf of East Sussex County Council, Wealden District Council, Sussex Police Authority, East Sussex Fire Authority and your parish or town council. And yes, all of the councils in that mountain of layers, are over staffed and over paid. Then finally, paid a whopping pension, or otherwise gifted a golden handshake on retirement. And, you are paying for it, like sheep to the financial gas chambers.

According to their website, the amount you pay to each authority is shown as a percentage:

East Sussex County Council 71% (WTF - where is all this money going, yachts, overseas investments?)
Wealden District Council 9% (To keep control of who gets what)
Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner 10% (for SLAPP actions and covering up planning crime)
East Sussex Fire Authority 5% (about the only reasonable use of resources)
Parishes 5% (to help WDC and ESCC keep control and only allow mates permissions, etc., allegedly)

THEIR SPENDING PLANS 

Spending plans for 2023 to 2024 (actually don't) reveal details of their income and how they plan to spend your hard earned cash:

- Planning and Building Control (cover ups and favours for mates)
- Recycling & Waste (could be made profitable, or privatised with opt out for greenies)
- Benefits (Paying rents to landlords, many of which are Councillors, or officers)
- Council Tax (using non-courts to threaten and browbeat anyone asking questions)

The following table is published as to how Wealden plan to spend your money

Spending Plans for 2023/24Item 2022/23 £ (000) £ (000) 2023/24

Elected Members 380,00 pounds up to £397,000 pounds
Chief Executive’s Directorate £5,531,000 million pounds, to £4,446,000 million pounds (you must be joking)
Elections 0 300 (is that for steerage or what?)
Customer and Community Services 9,232 12,240
Planning, Policy and Environmental Services £3.958 million up £4.017 million pounds (again, a joke, at your expense)
Legal, Governance and Strategic Projects 0 1,726
Centrally Managed Budgets 496 419

Total Cost of Services £19,597,000 up to >>> £23,545,000 (why?)

Drainage Levies 87 92
Interest (Net) (1,020) (2,105)
Charges to the Housing Revenue Account (1,147) (1,163)
Capital Financing Charges 305 312
Capital Expenditure charged to Revenue 3,663 12,666

Net cost of Services 21,485,000 33,347,000

Business Rates (5,300) (7,350)
Other Government Grants (2,798) (4,890)
Contributions to /(from) Earmarked Reserves 134 (7,581)
Contributions to /(from) General Fund Balances 80 608
District Council Basic Council Tax Requirement 13,601 14,134
Town and Parish Council Precepts 7,527 7,895
Total Council Tax Requirement 21,128,000 22,029,000


How their spending has changed from 2022/23Item £ (000)

District Council basic Council Tax Requirement in 2022/23 13,601
Inflationary increases 1,892
Increase in retained Business Rates -2,050
Decrease in Government Grants -2,092
Other service pressures 1,838
Increase in interest from investments -1,085
Reduced revenue contribution to Capital 9,003
Use of Reserves and Balances -6,973 (what are where are the reserves?)
District basic Council Tax requirement in 2023/24 14,134

Changes to Band D Council Tax

Band D Council Tax 2022/23    £ 2023/24   £ % Change
Wealden District Council £202.44 208.49 = 2.99%

Wealden’s share of the council tax is claimed to be equivalent to £4.01 per week. Based on what?

You will note there is no breakdown as to staffing or pension costs.

A more interesting exercise would be to quantify Council costs, in relation to number of households, and/or number of adult residents in East Sussex and Wealden.

That might give us the percentage of wages/salaries for workers, to support this admin army. Taking the shirts off the backs of honest workers.

Then take a look at other taxes, income, NIC, road fund licenses, fuel and energy taxes, VAT, etc. If you do, please share any information with us. You may find that Rule Britannia is made up of Slaves, not Free People at all. Time to make a few Waves, perhaps.

The total taxation per subject is astronomical, to pay for all those nuclear submarine and party political donations. Not to mention all the peerages.

We also need to know how much ESCC are raking in, from other District and Borough Councils, where this County seems to a massive financial Black Hole. A veritable shit creek.

There appears to be significant scope for weeding out the deadwood, to create a sustainable society, and free the Galley slaves. It's time the civil servants learned how to paddle up the Creek for themselves.

IN OTHER EU COUNTRIES

Loans, mortgages, and credit card debt are crippling the Swedes into a life of near indentured servitude, and according to one marketing expert, it's become quite the problem.

One of the perceived problems in the Wealden district, is monies given to Sussex police, are often used to cover up reported crimes. Hence, victims are being charged to fund SLAPP actions and malicious prosecutions. And that misuse of public monies breaks any contract with the victims.

Layers of councillors, who do nothing when decisions are delegated, out for a free lunch: 

1. Parish 

2. District 

3. County

Then there are layers of MPs on top, with whole armies of civil servants working from home. They all appear to be in on pensions, that have to come from somewhere. With nobody asking any questions. What are the electorate supposed to think?

A full council meeting at East Sussex County Council, who get 71% of your local taxes. The executive inspect their staff, to make sure they have the right kind of dress, to strike fear into any citizen foolhardy enough to question their ethics. To see this in action for real, why not visit the council's offices at Hailsham, Vicarage Lane, or any Magistrates Court.

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