Just back from jolly hols in France where we enjoyed the excellent roads, excellent food, wonderful hospitality (quite, we were not in Paris!) and the general spaciousness. Coming back seems to have landed us on the wierd and wonderful Planet Pickles (or perhaps Planet Spelman - or maybe they're a twin system?).
Have you see the Telegraph report about a return to weekly refuse collection? HMG appears to be planning to offer subsidies to councils to return to weekly refuse collection. That's my money! What bonkers part of CLG (or was it Defra?) thought up that idea? Is there not a sufficiently highly placed civil servant with a couple of neurons to rub together who can inform his or her parliamentary master or mistress that fortnightly collections work? Rubbish disposal has reduced under such regimes; and recycling has increased.
It's not a difficult system to get one's head around. And as for the anecdotes about an increase in rats etc. - it's hard for a rat to get into a wheely bin with a closed lid - maybe the methods of refuse collection should be considered, not the frequency.
It's time Mr Cameron put his money where his greenest-government-ever mouth is and gave Pickles and Spelman a good kicking (she obviously hasn't learned from the woodlands debacle).
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