My sympathies to Albert Stewart, a binman of 33 years standing in West Lancashire, who has fallen foul of Nanny's rules on waste management.
Mr Stewart wanted to help keep the area he worked in clean and tidy, he was in the habit of taking extra bin bags left beside overfull wheelie bins.
Needless to say Nanny's chums on West Lancashire Borough Council were not amused, they sent him a written warning and moved him from his route in Aughton to another one eight miles away.
West Lancashire Borough Council have told residents not to put out black bags next to their wheelie bins, because they attract vermin.
Fair enough!
Except that if Mr Stewart was removing the bags, doesn't that reduce the chances of vermin being attracted?
Ah but it is not as simple as that!
The council argue that to collect the bags would simply encourage people to leave them out.
So you see loyal readers, the vermin are not the real issue. The real issue is that the council doesn't want to collect the bags.
Nanny does not like her staff being helpful and using their initiative.
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ReplyDeleteDon't forget, each of these bags represents a potential fine....Kerching......The concept of public service is alien to many councils.
Enjoy public services responsibly.
"West Lancashire Borough Council have told residents not to put out black bags next to their wheelie bins, because they attract vermin.
ReplyDeleteFair enough!
Except that if Mr Stewart was removing the bags, doesn't that reduce the chances of vermin being attracted?
Ah but it is not as simple as that!
The council argue that to collect the bags would simply encourage people to leave them out.
So you see loyal readers, the vermin are not the real issue. The real issue is that the council doesn't want to collect the bags."
Typical of the kind of public
'service' provided by many local authorities, irresepective of their political persuasion.
The real vermin are not flies, cockroaches, rats etc but the tossers on the council.
Where I live we haven't had a rubbish collection since 18 December. First it was the Christmas/New Year break. Then it was the snow. They were supposed to have caught up last week but only half of our road was done. Our complaint elicited a "We will get back to you shortly" response, which they failed to do. Over the weekend we gave up and took our own rubbish down to the tip, leaving me to wonder what we pay council tax for.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: I'll wager that if you stopped paying your council tax, in protest at the wonderful
ReplyDelete'service' you have received, you would get a very swift response, snow, monsoon or whatever: they would indeed get back to you, very shortly!
The bin wars are a direct result of EU legislation that caps the amount of rubbish we can put into landfill - councils we be fined for overstepping the limit set by some areshole in Brussels, probably one of the Kinnock spawn on about £99999,0000 per year. The councils that do get fined will simply pass the cost on to the taxpayer. Hence the mania for recycling and fining people for putting too much rubbish in the bin. So tell me again why we are in the EU?
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