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Gordon Brown put in place a mechanism to allow councils to get some of the business rates not all. If I remember correctly the average was about 50% of the rates. Cameron's / May's government saw giving 100% of the rates as a way of funding local government without any need for money from...

It was actually Brown that started the process of councils getting some of the business rates. A bill was due to go before Parliament to give them 100% but was pulled because May called a snap GE - so thank you Mrs May :wink:

A couple of years ago I was on a residents panel setup to discuss the future of City Clean waste management. A number of meetings and presentations on how it works, what they wanted to do etc etc. City Clean wanted to compete with the private commercial waste collectors - partly to try and raise...