Impartiality test

Of course very many commercial properties owned by the council are rented by businnesses that either go toes up or move to larger properties and then the council are stuck with them and the let them out to charity shops rates free.

Yes that is the same as ours. But the council seem to have problems here letting those in the high streets ect. Of course the draconian parking laws and louts who make a living out of issuing parking tickets have an undesired effect.

thartcher: 1, poll tax 2. unemployment. cant think of a third
blair:  1. PPI  2. iraq war. cant think of a third
nick clegg: 1. backtracking on pledge to not raise tuition fees. 2. backing down too  far in the negotiations to join the government 3. bedroom tax
neil kinnock: cant think of any
nicola sturgeon: 1. the self identification trans law. cant think of 2 and 3
david cameron: 1. austerity. cant think of 2 and 3
jermy corbyn: 1. showing to much bias toward muslims against jews. eg, showing unwillingness to implement the antisemitism code into the labour party but very happy to quickly implement the identically structured islamophobic code into the labour party.  2. too much obsession about over foreign affairs issues 3. cant think of 3

Did I pass the test?

I have skills. Apparently,  I think that something which I did not even think of was not a bad thing 

What would I be like if I actually had an idea about something I did think of 

He did make me laugh for chiding me for something I did not it did say. Only a politico would do something like that 

However, re the rest of his post, it did cross my mind that austerity was a result of the international financial crisis, not UK domestic borrowing. if you think about it, governments for years have borrowed large, labour and tory. i mean, the tory governments of May and even more so Johnson went on a huge borrow and spend splurge not really much different to Blair. And that women who was PM for a month was going to do the same to fund tax cuts. 
So yeh, it was defo 'Cameron Tory austerity', for that was not the only option on the table, that was the one he deliberately choose. Others talked about Keynesianism to create economic growth.
So I think it is important when making an argument to stick to some accuracy and look at things objectively, not just from one's own biased memory. 

yes, to places like greece. i am not aware if was mandated to the UK, though. i recall it was all cameron's (tories) own idea, i remember listening to an interview about before he won his first GE as tory leader, and explained all his economic thinking about it, and he did not bring the EU into it

The Poll Tax achieved Margaret Thatchers dream of an end to universal use of CASH. Until that vile day dawned, banks were a luxury used by businesses and the wealthy, huge swathes of society had a savings account somewhere but a current account with its fees to put money in, take money out and have money in it was seen for what it was, a parasitic drain on the pittance held by the many after their bills were paid

The Poll Tax meant you had to have a current account to pay the poll tax direct debit. And unlike the rates where maybe one person in a household might have a bank account now everyone had to have one

The council demanded i ‘link’ my wife’s poll tax demand to mine on our joint account. I refused. They refused to be paid other than by DD, i saw no reason to reduce the size of their bill

I soon found the scum had done it anyway and were now taking double amounts out of the bank account every month for both my dd and my wife’s. I complained and they said they would fix it, they did not and three months later they still had not. After four months with them in possession of eight months money i terminated the DD.

I received a letter from my bank telling me that i could not cancel a DD (yes, really) and so i closed the account

A month later i had a final demand for uncollected poll tax and a fortnight later i was summonsed to court.

I had a fucking field day. I turned up and showed the magistrate my poll tax demand, the various letters and my bank account. He was incandescent but mainly because his time was being wasted.

I would have liked to see the council twat arrested for theft but sadly all that happened is he took early retirement when faced with allegations of incompetence in public office. It turned out about 25,000 of the homes in the borough had been similarly overcharged.