Wednesday, 24 March 2010 10:37
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Port Rates Fiasco
Port Rates Fiasco
Monday, 29 March 2010 13:04
Don’t be fooled by the Tory proposal to have a moratorium on retrospective rate payments in the ports. Sounds good. Means nothing.
It means they’ve flunked the chance of doing what I was urging them to and writing off the retrospective charges thus forcing the government to act. Bob Neill was trying to persuade their Treasury team to do this but couldn’t so they’ve opted for this blue herring.
Monday, 08 March 2010 11:44
Victoria Ayling, prospective parliamentary candidate for Grimsby announces that a Tory government will end the retrospective rate demands. Hurrah.
Victoria may not be the best source of Tory policy. She belongs to a different party to Dave’s Compassionate Conservatives .She’s announced already that a futile motion of regret in the Lords has solved the problem but it didn’t and couldn’t.
Thursday, 25 February 2010 15:46
News from the valuation agency which is starting to cough up some figures. They should have listed 50 ports for business rates in 2005. They missed out just over 700 and got 800 wrong. Total errors 1,500 on the basis of this unique record of incompetence. The government has decided that the VOA can charge port businesses huge retrospective rate bills to cover the cost of their own failures. By ruining the ports.
Wednesday, 03 February 2010 13:22
It’s impossible to tell what the Tory party policies are. They change so often.
Sure Start: First scrap them. Then cut them. Now keep them.
Spending cuts: First massive and immediate. Then less and more drawn out. Since Monday apparently none for a year.
Read more: If you don't like Tory policies they'll change them