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to be a bit pissed off that after all the cuts, £250,000,000 has been 'found' for weekly bin collections?

346 replies

Annpan88 · 30/09/2011 08:11

Correct me if I'm wrong but after all these cuts to services and people losing their jobs, I believe the government has decided to make changes to the minor Inconvenience that is fornightly bin collections?

Yes, it is a bit of a pain in the arse but I don't see how its the most important thing in thw world and I'm guessing people are pretty use to it.

I just wonder if people are feeling like me, AIBU?

OP posts:
LaWeasel · 30/09/2011 20:28

You sound like you're working in a very sensible department laura - I hope it's mine!

Would be really gutted if our council chose to take the money when it has such a great system going already.

Laura17823 · 30/09/2011 20:31

It's not an unpopular policy rycooler, bi-weekly grey bin collections are indeed very popular. I think you may have misread the entire thread.

And I hate to break it to you, but most people working for a Tory council, are just working for a Tory council, they don't have Tory ideals (thankfully). We are not councillors, we are employees. Most of us have worked there since before the dreadfully incompetant CallMeDave and the Coalition got in.

I am loyal to an efficient and extremely popular service, which this one is.

HTH.

GrimmaTheNome · 30/09/2011 20:31

Laura - if you have time could you run through some of the other services please, to put this silly bin thing in perspective?
a) those from which we all directly benefit
b) those which many of us don't benefit directly, but which no civilized society can do without

tyler80 · 30/09/2011 20:32

I'm curious as to whether the workforce are meant to abandon ship when a council is elected if it's a party they don't support.

Must have missed that one!

Laura17823 · 30/09/2011 20:32

Thanks LaWeasel! We have a really good staff, very proud of our increasing recycling levels!

LineRunner · 30/09/2011 20:33

I don't disagree that Pickles is a fuckwit, especially if the Tory shires reject this pot of money - but why on earth does Pickles have such a cachet in government? Because he does. Somehow.

SpringHeeledJack · 30/09/2011 20:34

not read thread, just op

was thinking of starting similar earlier but got sidetracked

YANBU. It's fucking ridickerlous

Laura17823 · 30/09/2011 20:34

Grimma, I wish I could get to my work emails from home, I have a proper breakdown of it all (with figures) in case we get asked about it over the phone!

It pays for the county, district, town and parish councils, the police and the fire service. And then obviously the services that fall under those parent headings.

HTH. :)

rycooler · 30/09/2011 20:36

Grimma; people like to look Eco-sexy - you know the type - 'I make bracelets out of chicken bones' - they want to look concerned about the environment and 'green' - most of us just want our rubbish collected weekly - like it was in 1875.

southeastastra · 30/09/2011 20:37

rofl at the thought that people working for tory council would support the tories.

jeez

Laura17823 · 30/09/2011 20:37

Rycooler, you are getting sillier with every post.

LineRunner · 30/09/2011 20:39

But rycooler the very nature and quantity of 'rubbish' has changed so much since Victorian times. As have those who qualify for a colllection as 'householders.'

My mum had a dustbin. It was for coal ash, mostly. We had so little packaging and household waste to throw away.

It's gone crazy since the late 70s, though.

southeastastra · 30/09/2011 20:41

pickles came across so badly this morning on the bbc interview, it was wincey to watch.

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LineRunner · 30/09/2011 20:43

I heard Pickles on Radio 2 this morning. He wasn't making a whole lot of sense.

So why in the name of christ did Cameron allow this man to announce a £250m piece of nonsense on the day that sailors were sacked?

What has Pickles got???!

GrimmaTheNome · 30/09/2011 20:45

rycooler - the evidence of this thread is that most of us don't want weekly grey bin collection. We're happy with the biweekly recycling program.

LineRunner · 30/09/2011 20:48

I hope 'Call Me Dave' still has his lackeys reading MN! Smile

southeastastra · 30/09/2011 20:49

pickles has a bum face like cameron

LineRunner · 30/09/2011 20:50

Ah, the BumFace Chapter.

rycooler · 30/09/2011 20:51

The Tories know it's a vote winner, they're not stupid.

They wouldn't be spending the money if they didn't think it was worth it. They're giving people what they want - and what they promised.

Laura17823 · 30/09/2011 20:57

Nope, sorry Rycooler, you're wrong. Pickles (and you would realise this if you had read the thread) has his own agenda and has listened to the militant minority. The overwhelming majority either don't give a flying fuck or they don't want weekly collections because they don't throw away enough.

The only people this will be a vote winner with is those who already vote Tory. So they won't see a perceptible shift because of this hugely unpopular and unwanted announcement.

It is an extremely bizarre announcement actually. In the wake of budget and job cuts, throwing £250million at something that doesn't need fixing is bloody ridiculous.

LineRunner · 30/09/2011 20:59

If the Tories promised to reinstate weekly collections, then that's not what Pickles did today. He announced a limited non-ongoing revenue fund, and said on R2 that Council's don't have to ask for the money if they don't want to drop the fortnightly collections.

southeastastra · 30/09/2011 20:59

actually it's an insult to bums Wink

the tories here are fucking up on so many levels, really quite pleased this is another nail in their coffin, though too late for our services

LineRunner · 30/09/2011 21:02

Oh fucking jeezus wept, my first MN errant apostrophe. Sorry. I blame Lulu coming on the telly.

onagar · 30/09/2011 21:07

I just ordered a book from amazon and do you know there was no option to have it wrapped in biodegradable lentils. I guess I'll just have to get a group of friends together and we will write our own books which will have no packaging at all!.

Because when it arrives I won't know WHAT to do with the packaging. It would clearly be immoral to put it in the bin.

Btw I was nearly swayed by the references to Mr Pickles physical appearance. Because of course everyone knows you should judge people and treat them differently if they 'look funny'.

wasabipeanut · 30/09/2011 21:07

I live in an area where they weigh the Tory vote as opposed to counting it and we had a leaflet the other day saying they were moving to the alternating grey bin/recycling type system. Seems perfectly sensible. We have great recycling collections and they are introducing a food waste caddy as well as part of the deal so it all seems very fair and, indeed, inevitable. Nobody I know minds at all. I used to live in an area with a similar system and it worked well. I'm not quite sure why so many people still can't get their head around the fact that we can't just keeping chucking stuff into landfills.