Sentence examples for scrap council from inspiring English sources

If Labour was still capable of listening, they'd have heard the call to scrap council tax.

He would scrap the national curriculum, scrap council tax, and restore councils' right to tax local businesses.

We should scrap council tax and stamp duty, replacing both with a land value tax collected by local authorities.

Yes (and look now at the way in which Lib Dem proposals to scrap council tax are forcing the pace of reform of local government finance).

We have a long-term commitment for a progressive form of property taxation based on land values, but in the short term, we propose to scrap council tax and its requisite infrastructure.

The Liberal Democrat pledge to scrap council tax in favour of a local income tax that would have increased taxes for many middle-income households may also have turned off Tory voters.

The Government has already said it will scrap councils' ability to introduce "pay as you throw" schemes to penalise householders who produce more waste, labelling the measures brought in by Labour as "bin taxes".

By scrapping council tax.

His "scrapping council tax revaluation" shamelessly leaves property at 1993 prices, another bonus for the wealthy.

Scrapping council tax benefit as a centrally designed system and handing it over to councils created a chaotic landscape that universal benefit designers would be hard pressed to incorporate.

Ed Balls fought to counter the Conservatives' "smear analysis" about Labour's economic credibility by stressing he cannot commit his party to reversing the public sector pay freeze or scrapping council cuts in the first year after the election.