2026-05-13 09:25 UTC
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@sean@mastodon.me.uk 2026-05-13 09:31
@eco-g@stroud.social what this highlights to me is that Zack has faced the same shortage of housing he is campaigning about This is not the usual politician-forgets-to-pay-capital-gains-tax-on-second-home scandal People do not live on boats in London for fun They live on boats because they can't afford a house they make the best of it and have fun in the summer
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@mjr@masto.bike 2026-05-13 09:37
@eco-g@stroud.social it seems to be a complicated mess. The council tax is due on the mooring, not the boat? https://kanda.boatingcommunity.org.uk/council-tax-and-liveaboard-boaters/
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@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org 2026-05-13 10:02
LB: We lived on a houseboat in London for a couple of years. It was wonderful. When we moved aboard, the letting agent specifically advertised it as not requiring council tax, which turned out to be a lie. We informed the council that we'd left our previous property, and were promptly billed for council tax on our apartment on the boat. Of the six apartments (it was a large barge), we were the only ones paying. Anyway, we were just up river from the riverside park in Brentford, where there were a dozen or so other boats. I got to know a few of the owners, and learned that none of them paid council tax, because the council wouldn't let them. It wasn't an official marina, just a place where boats had moored over the years, and some of them had become permanent. They *wanted* to pay tax, because they wanted post and bin collections. But they couldn't. Not the same situation as Zack Polanski, of course, but I found it interesting all the same.
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2026-05-13 10:57
@eco-g@stroud.social From what I remember from dealing with residential moorings in #Cambridge the rules can change from council to council and time to time. It's not as if "everybody knows" what they are. If you're paying your mooring fee to the council they're quite likely to tell you the rest of the rules - but a private marina?? Some of our boat dwellers have the boat as their registered address for voting. There are various opinions as to whether or not they should be allowed residents' parking permits. It all gets rather complicated.
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@benjamincox@writing.exchange 2026-05-13 10:57
@eco-g@stroud.social Which is, of course, entirely predictable given our media’s pathological bias towards Farage and the Far Right. The more they try to smear him, the more inclined I am to listen to what he’s saying.
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@harry_wood@en.osm.town 2026-05-13 13:13
@eco-g@stroud.social Meanwhile we've got the likes of Richard Tice who set up offshore trusts & dormant companies to avoid paying £600K in corporation tax, and who sneers at the suggestion he did anything wrong.
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@Lazarou@mastodon.social 2026-05-13 13:56
@eco-g@stroud.social they're laughing about this on Bluesky, it's a Luke Akehurst op that's backfiring because it's so petty...they claimed some nonsense about laundrette trips is some massive scandal like Peter Mandelson, it's False Equivalence. #ZackPolanski #LukeAkehurst #Greens #Labour #London #Houseboats #UKPol #UKpolitics