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Pay Council Tax Hove MP tells Occupy...

pirate | 26.11.2011 14:53 | Occupy Everywhere | Public sector cuts | Repression | Workers' Movements | South Coast | World

Hove & Portslade (East Sussex) MP. Mike Weatherley suggests Occupy 'tents' in London/ Brighton etc should pay council tax...



Posted on Brighton GScene Magazine website:

 http://www.gscene.com/news/Hove_MP_says_campers_should_pay_rates.shtml

Mike Weatherley, MP for Hove and Portslade, wants Campers at St Paul's Cathedral and in the centre of Brighton to pay Council Tax.

Mike has condemned the campers outside St Paul’s in a number of articles in the Daily Express and Time Out. Locally, he has called on the campers in Victoria Gardens to leave, saying that long-term camping in public spaces as a form of protest is unacceptable.

Mike said:
"When families across Brighton & Hove are struggling to pay Council Tax, it would seem logical that everybody should at least pay their fair share, especially when extra services will be required to clean up the inevitable mess when the campers eventually leave.

“It’s bad enough that the campers are depriving residents and tourists of the public spaces that they have commandeered. If we have to put up with them for now, the least they should be doing is contributing to the community they have imposed themselves on by paying Council Tax. They obviously have money as every time I’ve been past they have been drinking, smoking and playing with the latest electronic gadgets.”

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Brighton and Hove tells Mike Weatherley to Occupy.

26.11.2011 16:12

This is just about plumbing the depths from the man who is rarely seen in his constituency. Voters in Hove feel disenfranchised as their MP makes very few appearances in his constituency. He never hold a surgery as MP. People who contact him to ask him to see them, or discuss their issues, fail to get a response. Complaints about his dereliction of duty as an MP go unanswered.

Mike Weatherley has no right to lecture anyone. He is a non MP nad scamming the system. One of the Cameron millionaire brigade. It makes you want to take up hunting-- millionaires that is. A blood sport that we would support.

Brighton Eye

Who costs most?

26.11.2011 17:01

I wonder who is likely to cost the most, the occupiers or the MP. In addition to his £65,000 pa salary from the taxpayer, Weatherley received £13,983.50 in expenses towards "accommodation" in 2010-11

Ashe

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two wrongs don't make a right

27.11.2011 11:54

sure the MP is an overpaid whatever

but, the point still stands that there are a lot of freeloaders who other people are having to pay to clear up after

dave

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Like Who

27.11.2011 17:09

dave like who???Please name them? Tar!

Dave

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dave

27.11.2011 17:56

i dont know their names, but the ones that left shit everywhere and use the facilities that everyone else pays for

dave

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should pay council what?

27.11.2011 19:18

If people make a mess should they clear it up or pay the bin men to do it?
Sounds fare to me!
Or should they pay TAX so political parasites can chose to spend it on something more important ?

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