We pay one of the highest council tax rates in the country and receive some of the poorest public services in return. Our Council Tax should be coming down - not always going up. Millions of £££'s i Council Tax revenue and 'planning gain' from big developments have flowed of Saddleworth and disappeared down a black hole in Oldham Oldham Council has grown far too big. The council should concentrate on the basic services local authorities were set up to provide and forget the 'social engineering' Oldham is so inept at. It's been a 36 year forced marriage of inconvenience between a mainly rural Yorkshire parish and a declining Lancashire mill town. It hasn't worked and we should have the right to say if we want a divorce.