Angry Brits cancelling their council tax payments after elections postponed: 'Not paying!'

Angela Rayner announced the postponement of immoderate section elections connected Wednesday (Image: Getty)

Voters are threatening to withhold council taxation payments successful protestation astatine the postponement of section elections successful immoderate parts of England by Angela Rayner.

The lawman premier curate confirmed connected Wednesday that radical volition not get to formed their ballots during this year's local elections successful 9 areas connected May 1.

They volition alternatively spell up adjacent year.

Sir Keir Starmer's close hand-woman claimed that holding the votes would beryllium an "irresponsible discarded of money" owed to the information that it is apt that immoderate bodies "won't exist" aft changes.

The determination has sparked anger.

@CromwellStuff said connected X: "I person conscionable informed my region assembly I volition not beryllium paying assembly taxation arsenic we radical successful Hampshire are not being permitted to ballot successful May!"

@tws4042 replied: "Same here….Hampshire! They volition not get a penny from me!"

Steve Poole wrote: "Good shout. I’ve not paid past years arsenic a protestation for assorted reasons. West Sussex besides nary section elections truthful volition articulation you for this years."

Another idiosyncratic said: "Let america cognize what their effect is crom, mightiness bash the aforesaid present successful West Sussex."

A antithetic relationship said: "Done the aforesaid for my region council…"

Ms Rayner confirmed this week that votes for the pursuing authorities are to beryllium postponed for a year:

• Norfolk County Council
• Suffolk County Council
• Essex County Council
• Thurrock
• East Sussex
• West Sussex
• Hampshire
• Isle of Wight
• Surrey

Local elections are owed to instrumentality spot successful May successful England (Image: Getty)

The section authorities caput besides told the House of Commons that she has invited each 2 tier areas to nonstop proposals for their conversion into unitary authorities.

She added that these are the "right size to execute efficiencies, amended capableness and withstand fiscal shocks".

The lawman premier curate added that proposals would beryllium developed with "extensive" section engagement with communities, and claimed that territory councillors had told her that "the 2 tier strategy isn't working" aft 14 years of a Conservative "doom loop".

Ms Rayner added: “While devolution tin dependable techie, the result is elemental – it’s a program for putting much wealth successful people’s pockets, it’s a program for quicker, better, cheaper transport designed with section radical successful mind, a program for putting authorities backmost successful the work of moving people.”