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

Is your Mayor a coach driver?

He is after the tips!!

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!

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.

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!!

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.