Old people are revolting.
There's a Bustle in the Hedgrows of rural Britain, the Council tax rises this year are going to be horrific, I smell revolt in the air.
ShropshireStar.com - News - Article
An entire Shropshire village's pensioner population today told council bosses: "We will not live on the bread-line to pay extortionate rises in council tax."
Every pensioner in Crudgington, near Wellington, has signed a petition to say they will not pay any increase above the rate of inflation to Telford & Wrekin Council.
They say they would rather be hauled to jail with their zimmer frames.
The petition, signed by 30 pensioners from a village of fewer than 50 houses, warns that from January 2004 all direct debit payments by them for council tax will be stopped.
