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> but they make great chocolate
In Preston?
As for living arrangements, I wouldn't want to live anywhere but here in Dublin. I love living here.
> I find it especially interesting that, on average, Tory councils put
> tax up more than Labour councils.
And this makes it okay? The best you can do is "well they're doing it as well"? They have to do it because it is the continued policy of this labour government in how it chooses to use funds.
> Also, its more than just bins emptied. England now has the cleanest
> beaches, air and drinking water since the begining of the Industrial
> Revolution.
And how many towns have beaches? Do I care? Does the majority of the nation? I doubt it, round here they can't even keep the park clean...Air? We have the cleaner air due to less industy, various acts of parliament and international treaties...very little to do with Council tax.
> Would you rather a Tory Government, who'd take 1000 police officers
> off the streets?
Wow, 1000 eh? You forget to mention the other changes, which would get more existing police officers onto the street because they'd be doing less paperwork or passing some duties onto other people.
> Also, the BCS shows that overall crime is down 22% since 1997. There
> are also new anti-social behaviour acts, and new laws to tackle
> racism, and nuisance tenants, and noisy neighbours.
Well I don't know about that, but I'd wager that only the most ardent labour supporters in the country would believe that...
> Harsher punishment. Well, if that worked, there would be no murders
> in Texas. And we had capital punishment here, and people still
> committed crime. I'm studying Crime and Deviance in Sociology now,
> and i believe it is societies fault. By the way, didn't the cheif of
> police you quoted earlier also say he's 'Happy with the powers he
> has'?
He means he is happy with the anti-terrorist powers his force has. As in the Police force. Sociology eh? The problem is that I suspect you've not finished the course and that the "society is to blame" answer is but one of many...for starters it's from the liberal viewpoint of society.
> Society is a direct product of the
> government in power, in the same way that the government reflects
> society - kind of a circular thing.
>
> So, why is their crime in counteries with little or no central
> Government?
You're doing what course again????
If you have no government then a different kind of society is created, a non-western one for starters, without laws or controls it becomes little more than the rule of the strong minority of the weaker majority.
> Thats Council Tax. The Government don't put the Council Tax up. In
> the past few months, the Government has increased the money it gives
> to councils, to try to stop those rises.
Sorry but they do, except Mr Blair doesn't want to see that link to his government in a forthcoming election period.
Council tax was setup under a government, hence it can be removed by government as the poll tax was. Council tax is the main way local councils generate revenue for services - because central government doesn't want to spend more than it has to on them.
Under the council tax you could have 6 people in a house and they'd pay, in total, the same as 1 person living in the same size house. Even the poll tax was actually fairer to people, and look what finally happened in that example...
You'll also find central government has the power to cap tax rises, but doesn't, despite the promise it would do so where councils had excessive rises.