Rubbish collection: are the Tories saying different things to different people?
Written by Mark Pack on 1st May 2007 – 5:00 pmCompare and contrast:
Caroline Spelman … the Shadow Local Government Secretary questioned the wisdom of moving towards more fortnightly bin collections (from the Conservative Party website)
with
Fortnightly collections ‘boost recycling’
LGA chairman [Conservative] Lord Bruce-Lockhart said: “The move by some to alternate weekly bin collections is aimed at working with residents to reduce waste, increase recycling and slowing rising costs” (from news reports on an LGA report)
That wouldn’t by any chance be one senion Conservative saying one thing in one place, and another senior Conservative saying the opposite somewhere else would it?
Posted in Opposition watch 5 Comments »
1st May 2007 at 8:24 pm
Lets not go there people! Our LGA leader after all is Richard Kemp from Liverpool!
In any case different solutions for different areas is at the core of our approach
1st May 2007 at 10:17 pm
Good poiny Hywel.
Fortnightly bin collections have to be the way forward with increased support for recycling.
Unfortunately, the majority of the public won’t stomach this and whoever is in control, Tory Lab, Lib Dem will take a hammering in the press and at the polls.
2nd May 2007 at 12:48 am
Well, to be fair that is somewhat better than our local Liberal Democrats who voted in favour of alternate weekly collections in the council chamber, but now in Mid Sussex are using a form of words which looks like they are against them.
After all, you can legitimately have party differences, between party members, but for one party member to have differences with himself depending on who he is talking to? There is a word for that. Non Liberal Democrats know what it is.
2nd May 2007 at 1:11 pm
Err, here in the States we have rubbish collected TWICE a week!! and recyclable stuff once a week(tho of course they make much more rubbish here!)
If you have once a fortnight, isn’t there a health risk (or at least a nasty stench) from rotting material?
2nd May 2007 at 7:48 pm
Cheltenham Robin – I think you misunderstood my point.
I don’t think that weekly or fortnightly (or any other time period) for rubbish collection is the “right” way forward.
That’s something that varies from area to area and can depend on number of factors. Decisions on that micro a nature are really best taken locally.
So of course people say different things in different parts of the country. And it’s possible that sometimes that is done for narrow political benefit not out of principle (but not by us naturally!)
Support for fortnightly collections has become almost a doctrinal belief point among some people.
Though I speak in an area which has weekly collections of both waste and recyclables so maybe I’m lucky