My Council Tax Bill arrived today and the Hampshire Police Authority element of it is up by 8.1% against last year! I feel quite angry about it – see my postings from 14 February and 15 February. I never did manage to speak to them, giving up after being in a queue for some time. By the time a week had passed I realised that I was banging my head on a brick wall in trying to get them on the ‘phone – we could describe the hooligan, a local shopkeeper who’d seen it even knew the hooligan’s name! And now they want 8.1% more money!! That will be 8.1% on top of the speeding fines they collect on Lances Hill. Lances Hill is the main road out of Southampton going eastwards, it’s dual carriageway with a barrier in the centre and some of the side has railings. Yet the speed limit is 30mph and one of the many speed cameras will book you (well, me actually) for doing 36mph at 06:30 on a summer Sunday morning. Thanks, that’s another 60 quid in the fund.