Anti Council Tax resisters besieged Edinburgh City Chambers today 5th February after the Council barred members of the public from the public gallery during the full City of Edinburgh Council meeting. Police eventually moved in to manhandle demonstrators out of the Chambers entrance. “The Council are acting like tinpot dictators – but we wont be intimidated,” say…Read moreRead more
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Council Tax Resisters Besiege Council
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE ACCOMPANIED TO JOBCENTRE INTERVIEWS and that’s official!
Mr Bill Wilson, Jobcentreplus District Manager for Edinburgh, Lothians and Borders, has stated “there will always be times when customers feel the need to be supported by a friend or advice worker and we will always try to accommodate this, whenever possible.” (letter to Edinburgh Claimants 18.11.2008) Mr Wilson wrote this letter in response to…Read moreRead more
Edinburgh City Finance Committee Disrupted
Members of Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty disrupted the Finance and Resources Committee meeting at the City Chambers on Tuesday 11th November, after the committee agreed to the second phase of the aggressive collection of council tax arrears, which the group argue is unjust. Angry protests from the public benches forced the Councillors to temporarily abandon…Read moreRead more
Councillor Mackenzie Surprised by anti-Council Tax Campaigners
50 members of the community group Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty surprised City finance leader Gordon Mackenzie at his surgery yesterday evening, demanding that he stop persecuting low income people struggling to pay their council tax. ECAP presented Mackenzie, the architect of the new aggressive and immoral council tax arrears recovery, with a large mock ‘final…Read moreRead more