2024-02-26
It's a question that I can't answer, and how matters unfold may become "interesting".
If councils are actually corporations as many aver, then when bankrupt, should they not be wound up like any other corporation?
But apparently there is doubt about this. It seems that they may become zombies, dedicated to charging their luckless residents ever higher council tax for ever decreasing services (and implementing other money-making wheezes) in a possibly futile effort to pay their debts and balance their books at some indeterminate time, possibly far into the future ...
And if their residents decide to go on tax strike? Given that by many accounts the payment may be a voluntary obligation rather than a strictly legal one ... life may indeed be about to become "interesting". How would they find enough debt collectors to round up all the residents who might decide to withhold payment?
Is this really simply because the Courts have been over-zealous in interpreting "equal pay" legislation? In which case no business is likely safe from judicial meddling?
And finally ...
Maybe we just need to wait until governments simply collapse under the sheer weight of their own incompetence.
Peace be with you!
