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Originally Posted by garinda
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As a resident of London, I was unaware that you paid council tax to Hyndburn Borough Council. The body who are actually spending money on this local jamboree.
I didn't know money from Tower Hamlet's found it's way into HBC's coffers.
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Who said 'owt about me paying the local council tax to HBC? Do you think I'm stupid?
Why don't you google the finances for HBC? I can't be bothered now, but if you do, you'll find that they received about £15m from the local council taxpayers. In addition, they received about another £7m which was sent up from London. That is money collected from every taxpayer in the land - including me.
You may also have seen today's news about Barclays Bank and their profits of £6bn. About a third of that is going to end up in the UK treasury; some of that in turn will end up in the coffers of HBC. Barclays Bank HQ location - Churchill Place, Tower Hamlets. Almost next door to HSBC, who will probably be paying even more into the UK Treasury and neither of whom received money in the taxpayer bailout.