The council have had a run in with me (I phrase it like that to stress that it was of course entirely their fault and problem, and in case anyone might make out that I could start a fight in a phone box).
To cut a very long story short they sent me a letter telling me to pay them money that they actually owed me because I'd overpaid on my council tax. They seem to think that this shambolic correspondence is acceptable. I have had a protracted battle with them at the end of which they'd refused to sort out their correspondence, but it strangely felt like the matter had left me.
Magically this is very significant and I was happy to leave it because I knew something was going to happen. Of course I can't take the whole credit for what comes next LOL, but was involved because obviously the universe wanted me to tell them they were twats because I'm the neighbourhood witch.
The big thing that was coming dropped yesterday:
This is all the worse because their unequal pay has been going on for years and has actually been extensively litigated. There was a time you couldn't get on a bus or train without seeing ads for solicitors saying if you were a woman and employed by the council you would be owed money. It's the fact they've been extensively sued and still carried on.
Their hasn't been that much outcry yet but their certainly will when further cuts hit the poorest of the poor. Set of cunts.
The council think they are going to carry on with this and not make the legal submission to the government where the council is essentially dissolved and the government takes it over.
WANNA BET?
Do you get threatened to be sent to collections if you don't pay a bill by the council? Collectors are nothing but legalized scammers and thugs here in the U.S. Most people are forced to pay government entities, hospitals (especially) or other large conglomerates that threaten collections because it will lower your credit score in the meantime, which could affect your employment, ability to rent or mortgage payments and loans, etc. Even if it's their mistake, you have to pay first and then attempt to fight back at which point they stonewall you until you die or they go into bankruptcy. Did you ever watch The Incredibles II, the scene where Mr. Incredible is working for an insurance agency and tells an old lady to file an obscure form to get out of paying the company? I used to do that sometimes as a government employee. Never enough to get fired for it, just enough to be an annoyance.
ReplyDeleteYou were obviously my type of government employee.
DeleteYes we do. There was a famous case some years ago of a very elderly lady nearby who just decided she wasn't going to pay her council tax (I can't remember why) and actually went to prison for it. She was released to a hero's welcome.
Obviously it's ridiculous when the council themselves owe literally millions doh.
My own plan is to die mortgaged up to the hilt owing money everywhere and have the council have to give me a pauper's cremation. Because the capitalists haven't noticed that at a certain stage in every Monopoly game the losing players either revolt or give up!