BBC bias on Council tax

At a time when excessively high wage bills for Council executives are coming under scrutiny, as are bloated local council bureaucracies in general, the BBC Today programme this morning focuses on the supposedly low council tax increases and cuts in services. No mention of executive wages or inefficiencies - no mention, for that matter, of the business rates, which is separate but linked to council tax.

Also talk of the "deflationary" effects of cuts in services caused by such low rises; what about the deflationary effects of council taxes and inefficiency? And why should councils have a remit to help Government achieve its macro-economic objectives? Yet again, the Today programme provides us with an internal conversation within the Left.

The Taxpayers' alliance see it differently. For a democratic programme of reform, David Hannan says it right with his ten steps.