Fees and Charges rates for this coming year will go up too. Not only that, but they now want to introduce new car parking charges and increase rates where they exist already.
The clearest example of that drift is in their new policy to introduce a 100 per cent Council Tax Premium on second homes. Something we Conservatives refused to do.
They promised to reduce Council Tax. They are now admitting that this won’t be possible. This was always obvious and pointed out by us at the time.
It’s wrong to be using these fees as a stealth tax which squeezes people at times of great stress – and this legislation will leave hospitals no worse off.
Here’s the irony: if we bite our tongues and say nothing, and if Brexit is lost, we lose the next election anyway.
This campaign has shocked me. I have been deliberately belittled by being only described in terms of my relationship to a man in an overtly sexist fashion.