PRISON IS NO LONGER AN OPTION

THOUSANDS OF VUNERABLE PEOPLE ARE BEING FORCED INTO BANKCRUPTCY AS TOWNHALLS USE AGGRESSIVE TACTICS TO CHASE UP COUNCIL TAX ARREARS.   IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT BAILIFFS HAVE BEEN USED IN 1.2 MILLION CASES TO RECOVER COUNCIL TAX ARREARS LAST YEAR AND 2.5 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS RECEIVED COURT SUMMONSES.    RESEARCH BY THE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU SUGGESTS THAT TOWN HALLS FILED MORE THAN 5,000 PETITIONS FOR BANKCRUPTCY, OF WHICH 1,000 RESULTED IN SEIZURE OF GOODS.

IT HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED THAT LABOUR GOVERNMENT MINISTERS INTEND TO TREBLE THE FEES FOR PEOPLE IN DEBT AS FROM APRIL 1st 2009.    THE COST OF A LETTER INFORMING SOMEONE THEY MUST ATTEND COURT WILL BE INCREASED FROM £35 TO £100, WHILST THE COST OF AUTHORISING BAILIFFS TO SEIZE GOODS WILL INCREASE FROM £30 TO £100.     

ON TOP OF THESE COSTS WILL BE THE OUTRAGEOUS CHARGES APPLIED BY THE BAILIFFS, FULLY SUPPORTED BY THE COURTS. (THE WELLBEING OF PENSIONERS AND THE LOW PAID APPEAR TO COUNT FOR NOTHING WHEN IT COMES TO COLLECTING THE UNFAIR AND UNJUST LONDONERS ONLY OLYMPIC LEVY).THE BOROUGH OF BEXLEY PENSIONERS FORUM, THAT STARTED THIS NON PAYMENT CAMPAIGN, HAVE NO WISH TO SEE ANY LONDONER LUMBERED WITH A DEBT WHICH DWARFS THE ORIGINAL AMOUNT, OR THE SEIZURE OF ANY OF THEIR WORDLY GOODS BY BAILIFFS,  AND THEREFORE HAVE NOW CEASED THIS CAMPAIGN

WE SECURED OVER 11,000 SIGNATURES FROM LONDONERS WHO WERE AGAINST THIS LONDONERS ONLY OLYMPIC TAX, AND THESE WERE PRESENTED TO OUR MP, (who did support us).    HE IN TURN PRESENTED THEM TO PARLIAMENT - AND PARLIAMENT TOOK NO NOTICE, THEREFORE WITHOUT THE FULL SUPPORT OF THE LONDON LABOUR MP's OUR EFFORTS, AND YOUR EFFORTS, WERE "DULY NOTED"  - SO THE 10/12 YEAR LONDONERS ONLY OLYMPIC TAX STAYS. 

GOING TO PRISON WAS SOMETHING THAT SOME LONDONERS WERE PREPARED TO ACCEPT BUT AS THE AUTHORITIES HAVE DECIDED TO SEND IN THE BAILIFFS, PLUS THE HUGE INCREASE IN COSTS, NO DOUBT SUPPORTED BY THE SAME LONDON LABOUR MP''s WHO ACCEPTED THIS OLYMPIC TAX, JUST FOR LONDONERS,  IT IS FELT THAT IN THIS TIME OF ECONOMIC DIFFICULTY NO-ONES POSITION SHOULD BE MADE ANY WORSE.

    TO ALL 11,000 LONDONERS WHO SIGNED OUR PETITION

             WE SAY  "THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT ".    

       IF OUR LONDON LABOUR MP's HAD SHOWN THE SAME

     DEGREE OF SUPPORT WE MIGHT HAVE GOT A RESULT.

              BUT THEY DIDN'T - JUST REMEMBER THAT !  

                           AT  THE  NEXT  GENERAL ELECTION