We're With You, Rooney

Yes, I support Rooney.
No, not the boy wonder Wayne - he of the broken metatarsals who has just played a full 93 minutes of football against Ecuador. However much he was considered to be the saviour of England (the football team that is, not the country) I have little regard for this overpaid hulk who looks like he should be a bouncer in a seedy nightclub.
I write of no less a personage than Josephine Rooney, aged 69, of Derby. She has made a stand. She wants her rights. In her street the litter is appalling. Used hypodermics are found. Prostitutes and drug addicts abound in the area. The council seems unable, or unwilling, to clean the streets properly. The local police seem ineffective against the junkies and prostitutes. Josephine decided that if the council wasn't doing its job then she would not pay for it and withheld her £800 Council Tax. It isn't because she can't afford to pay. She has the money to pay sitting in her bank account but she does not feel she has had the service for which she is paying. There is a law in this country that means you must pay your Council Tax. So the local authority took her to court and she was sentenced to three months in prison. Josephine is a retired person and looks like any ordinary senior citizen. She is likely to serve at least six weeks of the sentence unless she pays up. It is a sad reflection on society that a body that does not provide the services it is paid to provide can be "in the right" to the extent that it makes a criminal of a person who decides not to pay for a service not provided. Imagine going into a shop, asking for a product and being told: "You can't have it but we'll charge you for it anyway".
We pay taxes so that we can have a certain standard of living. Where is the Office of Fair Trading when it comes to councils not providing the services paid for?
Nuff said again!