I don't believe it!!!

[Trumpton]

The town where I live has put up it's Christmas street decorations already!! On Thursday in fact. That's the 20th September!!

[BeestonBoy]

Is your Mayor a coach driver?

He is after the tips!!

[Trumpton]

The 20th September to put up the street Christmas decorations!! What IS going on? We the council tax payers have to pay for all this. !furious!

[Trumpton]

warren zevon rip wrote:

> Trumpton wrote:
>
> > The 20th September to put up the street Christmas
> decorations!!
> > What IS going on? We the council tax payers have to pay for
> > all this.
>
> Do we really? Most towns' lights are sponsored by a business or
> paid for by the local chamber of commerce/fundraising, etc.

Not here there not.

> If they ARE paid for by the council, remember that shops pay
> business rates, don't they?

Businesses pay CT.

[Trumpton]

warren zevon rip wrote:

> Trumpton wrote:
>
> > Businesses pay CT.
>
> I thought is was called Business Rates or something.

Which is a form of CT.

> Anyway, what matters is that shops pay money to the council.

Correct.

> So the lights that presumably are designed to attract shoppers to the
> shops are paid for by the shops themselves as much as by you.

Last year the retail income during the Christmas period was significantly down on the previous years. It's a desperate attempt to regain the "lost" shoppers who go elsewhere.

But the 20th September!!

[Trumpton]

warren zevon rip wrote:

> Trumpton wrote:
>
> > But the 20th September
>
> Yes. Very sad. And no doubt Santa is not real, neither.

What? What's this I read about Santa not being real? Of course he's real.