Letter to the Thurrock Gazette regarding Thurrock Council’s defence of their stealth rent increase

Here’s the full text of my latest letter to the Thurrock Gazette regarding the stealth increase in council rent being instituted by Tory-run Thurrock Council.  It may or may not be published in next week’s edition.

Please note:  I would really like to thank local bloggers The South Essex Stirrer for such a great review of and the link they added to my original article which is referred to in the letter.  I’d also like to thank Your Thurrock for also posting a link to that article along with reproducing the first couple of paragraphs on their site.

I have written an article for my personal blog which has been described as a "forensic demolition of Thurrock Council’s attempts to defend the tenant tax" by fellow bloggers, The South Essex Stirrer.  You can find the full article at http://valen1971.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/destroying-defence-of-thurrock-councils.html.  However, the following main point is that many of the items referred to by Cllr Gledhill's defence of this policy are already paid for out of Council Tax income which even council tenants pay.  This means that Cllr Gledhill is proposing to charge some council tenants TWICE for services to justify increasing the rent on council properties which the 'government' run by his Parliamentary brethren have pledged against, indeed they have pledged to reduce council rents by 1% in order to buy working class votes.

My advice to Cllr Gledhill is to stop spreading the male bovine faeces, own up to your administration breaking a pledge by your own party's 'government' and put a stop to the stealth increase now!