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Big Toll
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- ISBN8233031021
- EAN9798233031021
- Date de parution30/08/2026
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- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurLinda Balsamo
Résumé
Ever wondered why using a hosepipe on your own garden is a criminal offence carrying a £1, 000 fine, while the company that banned it loses a fifth of its water before it reaches anybody's tap - and puts your bill up again?That's Big Toll. Ever wondered why you pay to park at an English hospital, when the same car park is free in the other three nations of these islands?That's Big Toll. Ever wondered why you were urged to buy an electric car, and then charged four times the tax to charge it - but only if you have nowhere to park it off the street?That's Big Toll.
Ever wondered why the average student rent in England is £7, 566 while the biggest maintenance loan available is £7, 590? Twenty-four pounds a year to live on. That's Big Toll - and once you have a name for it, you start seeing it everywhere. And before you brace yourself for red string and pushpins: there is not a single conspiracy in this book. No secret meetings. No hidden hands. Nobody in these pages needed to break the law to take your money, and on the money - which is what this book is about - nobody did.
A conspiracy would be comforting. It would mean somebody was driving, and that exposing it would fix it. What actually happened is worse, because it is legal, and it is still happening. Britain sold its infrastructure. Then it rented it back to you. The leases run past 2100. One motorway service area is let until 2120. A ground rent under a new-build home can run a hundred and seventy-five years. When the Ministry of Defence sold the family homes of the armed forces, it leased them back on underleases running two hundred years - sold in 1996 for £1.66 billion, bought back in 2025 for £5.99 billion, with the National Audit Office finding the taxpayer ended up £14.5 billion worse off.
And most of the money leaves. A retired municipal worker in Ontario has a stronger claim on your water bill than you do. Nobody broke a single rule to arrange any of it. That is the problem, and it is why the story has never stuck. Parliament signed it. Only Parliament can undo it. BIG TOLL follows the money through thirty-five chapters, across twenty industries. It names the companies. It gives the company numbers.
It quotes the filings, the regulators' own findings, the court judgments and the parliamentary answers - and it prints the full working at the back, so you can argue with the arithmetic rather than with the author. It also does what these books usually will not. Every company gets its defence at full strength, and where the evidence cuts against the argument the book prints it anyway. And it ends by handing you the tool.
One page, six questions, and a seventh underneath them. Ask it of any bill, any charge, any price you cannot refuse, and you will know within a minute whether you are looking at a price or at a position. You already knew something was off. You just could not show the working. Go and check me. Every document in this book is public, free, and online tonight.
Ever wondered why the average student rent in England is £7, 566 while the biggest maintenance loan available is £7, 590? Twenty-four pounds a year to live on. That's Big Toll - and once you have a name for it, you start seeing it everywhere. And before you brace yourself for red string and pushpins: there is not a single conspiracy in this book. No secret meetings. No hidden hands. Nobody in these pages needed to break the law to take your money, and on the money - which is what this book is about - nobody did.
A conspiracy would be comforting. It would mean somebody was driving, and that exposing it would fix it. What actually happened is worse, because it is legal, and it is still happening. Britain sold its infrastructure. Then it rented it back to you. The leases run past 2100. One motorway service area is let until 2120. A ground rent under a new-build home can run a hundred and seventy-five years. When the Ministry of Defence sold the family homes of the armed forces, it leased them back on underleases running two hundred years - sold in 1996 for £1.66 billion, bought back in 2025 for £5.99 billion, with the National Audit Office finding the taxpayer ended up £14.5 billion worse off.
And most of the money leaves. A retired municipal worker in Ontario has a stronger claim on your water bill than you do. Nobody broke a single rule to arrange any of it. That is the problem, and it is why the story has never stuck. Parliament signed it. Only Parliament can undo it. BIG TOLL follows the money through thirty-five chapters, across twenty industries. It names the companies. It gives the company numbers.
It quotes the filings, the regulators' own findings, the court judgments and the parliamentary answers - and it prints the full working at the back, so you can argue with the arithmetic rather than with the author. It also does what these books usually will not. Every company gets its defence at full strength, and where the evidence cuts against the argument the book prints it anyway. And it ends by handing you the tool.
One page, six questions, and a seventh underneath them. Ask it of any bill, any charge, any price you cannot refuse, and you will know within a minute whether you are looking at a price or at a position. You already knew something was off. You just could not show the working. Go and check me. Every document in this book is public, free, and online tonight.