'"Mary Kelly, recovery manager for the council, was in court to make an application to commit Green to prison. She told magistrates she was asking for a suspended sentence "at the very least".

He said: "Since my payment started a month ago I paid my mum a certain amount back and I have had kids to send to school and pay for lunches. I don't have any other income or a social life or anything like that."

She added: "We tried everything we were allowed to do. This is the end of the line."

Fookin' Nazi. How will it help, binning him? No-one gets paid and his kids lose their Dad??

Britain 2008??

You can keep it....

Whats this all about like?

Council Tax. The ten percent you aren't supposed to know about.

Good.

Lock all the buggers up who don't pay. I have to pay so why shouldn't they?

The more that get locked up the more public outcry there might be about how unfair a taxation system it actually is- bring back the poll tax for me any day, it was a much fairer way than the current one.

Question being, should Mary Kelly get a big fat kick in the bounder?? Ever hour on the hour, pop-pickers??

Greenhouses Kevywevy, Greenhouses......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 775662.stm

No doubt the nasty pasties in the West made this up, eh?

Yes......that truly ONLY happens in China, and is only EVER reported by the BBC. When you come back from your visit here, and you are always welcome, try again.....

The powers that be, 'could' do that in this country. Get the whistle-blower, boat-rocker sectioned, pumped full of drugs, then who's going to believe a nutter eh?

Oops that's the door getting kicked in at four in the morning and my hard drive being filled with S**t

I didn't say it only happened in China, did I though Kev?

I was simply pointing out in the China you often report to us on, the same kind of thing goes on there as it does back in blighty

I mean, they are hardly going to go around rounding up people in front of new arrivals and tourists now are they?

I didn't bring China up. I haven't for yonks.

I can guarantee that they don't have a 67% tax burden here like.....or brag about locking people up who can't afford it.

I wonder if Ms Kelly pursues habitual shoplifters, fine dodgers, usual court round up suspects etc with the same zeal?

If so I look forward to a reduction in council tax next year and the repair of the pot holed roads in town. of which there are a fair few...