Consumer Action Group Strategy

[clumch]

Anyway the UK population are too docile, petty minded and lazy to actually stand up for their rights - so this thread is a waste of time.

 

We are just fodder to be ripped off and deceived by government and corporation.

 

 

CAG is all very well but the banks will just rewrite their terms and conditions and adapt.

[Conniff]

- so this thread is a waste of time.

 

We are just fodder to be ripped off and deceived by government and corporation.

 

CAG is all very well but the banks will just rewrite their terms and conditions and adapt.

 

Well I would certainly agree with the first statement, you could not even make an hypothetical case out of this.

 

I also agree with the second statement, the fuel protests are a good example of this when compared with the action take by some other countries. But have those other countries population actually had the result they wanted from their protests.

 

There is nothing wrong with coming up with an idea for a campaign, but you will need to do some research beforehand to see if it is feasable.

 

P.S.

Yes you could send in bailiffs to all the addresses, they would love that, would certainly find the staff to do it, and would think that Christmas had come early.

[Weird Al Yankovic]

I think the OP has thought this out quite well and, in theory, it would appear to work.

 

However, we are not French and protests such as this in the UK are unlikely to prevail.

 

Anything like this has to begin, or initially involve London, and they couldn't care for each other let alone the whole country.

 

9/10 for effort & thought, 1/10 for it to happen.

[indebtstudent]

"it would be incredibly foolish not to pay council tax as a political statement, unless you are willing to go to jail."

 

The prisons are full, yet incredibly ever now and then you see a pensioner get locked up for non payment of council tax.

 

I sympathise with the OP, council tax is shockingly bad. Every year the bill goes up by 5% or so but my council remains fantastically inept at even very simple tasks.

 

For the moment I can afford to pay it, but I would suggest more people will feel the kind of frustration I feel if the bill continues to rise.

 

There must be a level at which it causes real hardship, and if enough people refused to pay I believe it could bring about change.

 

It is impossible to lock everybody up, the problem lies in getting people to do anything.

 

If we made a pack to all not pay it and suffer the consequences the system would be paralysed. Trouble is anyone who works in a bank, for the police, as a barrister, and loads of other jobs aren't allowed to have a criminal record so they are out.

 

Very few people would actually engage on such a risky course unless they felt they had no alternative. If things carry on as they are this is a real possibility.