Councilspeak for "go boil your head!"

While other local authorities have managed to re-issue council tax bills in the wake of the Lincolnshire Police fiasco, Boston's finance department is still licking its pencils and sharpening its quills.
We're promised revised bills by the end of October, and whilst this delay is surely not deliberate, it does benefit the council in that it collects as much money as possible right up to the bitter end.
Meanwhile most taxpayers are worse off by around £46.38, and to add insult to injury the chocolat théière known as the Boston Borough Council website, whilst inviting visitors to "veiw (sic) the revised charges for 2008/09, any attempt to do so is rewarded with the message "You are not authorised to view this resource. You need to login. "
If the taxpayers aren't authorised, we wonder who on earth is!

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