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North Lanarkshire Labour Council bankrupcy policy for council tax payers |
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Central Solidarity fights for justice
Solidarity MSP Tommy Sheridan has called on North Lanarkshire Council to stop their outrageous bankruptcy policy for council tax arrears. Since 2005 this policy has led to over 300 local families being taken to court and stripped of any financial assets.
Many of these families live with the constant threat of their homes being sold from under them, all for a paltry sum of debt amounting to as little as £1,500.
North Lanarkshire’s Labour controlled authority appears to be ‘gun ho’ in their pursuit of vulnerable families. Many of these victims have had their offers of debt repayment refused by the Council; others were already paying back arrears when they received a citation to attend court to be declared bankrupt. The Council decided to take families to court, appointing private solicitors to act on their behalf at an enormous cost to the council tax payer.
Council tax payers are footing the bill to take the families to court, and when a family has been made homeless because of the court action, they are then paying to have them re-housed by the council.
The only winners in all of this would appear to be the solicitors and insolvency (bankruptcy) practitioners who are coining it in at the expense of the residents of North Lanarkshire. Solidarity wonders if the council will continue to make vulnerable families homeless over the next 4 weeks or if they will suspend their court cases due to the election campaign?
Local Solidarity candidate Ray Gunnion stated “A vote for Labour would be a vote for more misery for hundreds of families who may have built up some council tax arrears for any number of reasons.
Solidarity will fight for the removal of this draconian policy for the benefit of all council tax payers.”
Solidarity would be happy to hear from anybody who has found themselves in this situation and should contact Ray through www.solidarityscotland.org
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