Plant Pot Is An Elf’N’Safety Risk
Why do we tolerate this sort of nonsense? Why do we put up with it? Why can’t we get these people up close and personal with rope and lampposts?
Diana Angel left out a sack of rubbish with a plastic plant pot and a broken dustpan and brush only to find it ripped open and left behind. She was sent a letter telling her it constituted “bulky waste” and she would have to pay £30 to have it taken away. Understandably she complained to Colchester Council, a Lib Dem/Labour coalition.
Cllr Tim Young, a Labour councillor and the Cabinet Member for Waste, says the items “were considered a hazard” and “it might have been dangerous for the refuse collectors to take them away.”
In the words of Cllr Harry Phibbs, “He’s just become a spokesman for the council officers, hasn’t he? He’s been swallowed whole. He’s not really in control. This is what he should have said”: “I’m very sorry, Mrs Angel. What happened was absurd. I have given instructions that this sort of incident should never happen again.”
No surprise or irony to be taken, of course, from the fact that the Labour council has a Cabinet Member for Waste. After all, Gordoom has a whole government of them.
“Cllr Tim Young, a Labour councillor and the Cabinet Member for Waste Of Space“
I was chatting about this general subject with my local Tory Party prospective candidate the other day.
We agreed that local authority paid Officers have become far too powerful, our local representatives ( ” Cabinet “, pompous fools ) have become largely powerless to anything other than what they are told they can do ( other than get the odd pothole fixed by using their ‘influence’ ).
Time the Directors Of Directorates were taken down a peg or two.
…and paid a hell of a lot less too. Some of them are on eye-watering salaries.