RUBBISH...
Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 10:55AM It symbolishes the breakdown in our society.
" A council is refusing to empty wheelie bins if they are left on gravel driveways - in case they injure binmen. Bosses at West Wiltshire district council fear stones could become trapped in the wheels and cause the bins to topple over. Only months ago the same council refused to empty wheelies which its binmen could not pull using just two fingers. The latest policy came to light when binmen repeatedly refused to touch the bin left out by Mark Birkett, 38, in Trowbridge, because the wheels were on his gravel drive. Mr Birkett said: 'I can pull it 30ft down my drive but they cannot pull it just a few inches over gravel. 'They only have to pull the bins literally a couple of inches over the gravel and it is downhill. 'But I was told they would not be pulled across the gravel for health and safety reasons', Mr Birkett said.
For your information, West Wiltshire is CONSERVATIVE controlled. So here you see that the toxicity which imperils our political system is as much of a feature of the so-called right as the left. If David Cameron was a Leader he would be straight on the phone to his Councillors here and he would be demanding that local binmen provide a service, not an excuse. He won't. That's why in the final analysis, the Conservatives and Labour are just as bad as each other.
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Reader Comments (3)
Socialist Bureaucrats at work.
The entire matter is rubbish!
The bin owner should empty it himself, in the council offices.
The bin owner should empty it himself, in the council offices.
If we could find a way of wheeling it up to Stormont, fill it, and then dump?