THURROCK Council has been given the green light by the government to increase council tax by up to ten per cent - without having to go to residents for a referendum. The council have lost around £900m of residents' money, burned on failed investments and mismanagement which include over £200m "invested" in solar panel sham.

Councils are normally only allowed to raise tax by five per cent. Should they want any more, they are supposed to ask local people via a poll, but after Conservative councillors on the cash-strapped authority went cap-in-hand to the government seeking a dispensation, it has been given the approval to add up to an extra five per cent without a vote.

At an extraordinary full council meeting last month, leader Cllr Mark Coxshall told members of the plan to seek the right to scrap a referendum.

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