18 February (Part 1) -
We plan on ripping you off until you rebel
A week after Bexley Council announced that it would
whack up bin
taxes every year for as long as residents continued to pay
I cancelled my
Direct Debit. Yesterday I received the annual renewal letter from ‘The Garden
Waste Team’ complete with idle threats about what might happen if I failed to
cancel the service in the approved way.
This is to go to www.bexley.gov.uk/gws
and press the Cancel button. Not wishing to offend against their rules I did
exactly that only to find that the Cancellation facility is only available to
those who have a Bexley Account. I haven’t got one so I sent a complaint instead.
I noted that my expiry date is 25th March even though I signed up for the Autumn
2015 start. Have we really had six months of strikes (and consequential extensions) since then?
£27 in 2015.
£70 in 2024.
The Bank of England says inflation has been 31% since 2015. The bin charge should be no more than £36.
Presumably it makes sense for three (for example) neighbours getting together and paying a maximum of £70·40+£48·80+£48·80
and in effect getting the bin charge down from £70 to £55.