Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

Any Other Business | 30 May 2009

I don’t give a toss about my MP’s flat, but I’m bloody livid about council tax

issue 30 May 2009

I don’t give a toss about my MP’s flat, but I’m bloody livid about council tax

Next Thursday’s elections have been so overwhelmed by the scandal of Westminster expenses that candidates for the major parties have scarcely shown their faces in my part of the world. And voters, content to fulminate at the daily pageant of shamed MPs on their television screens, don’t much care whether county council and Euro candidates turn up on the doorstep or not.

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