Friday 8 January 2010

This Is The Punishment That Awaits All Traitors...

All Albert Stewart wanted to do was help householders keep their streets looking clean and clear of clutter.

But the binman has been removed from the round he has worked for 33 years – for picking up too much rubbish.
Say what?

I wonder if money was involved?
The 60-year-old took away extra bin bags left beside overflowing wheelie bins, which council bosses say is against strict refuse rules.

Householders caught leaving rubbish outside wheelie bins can be fined up to £1,000.
My god, Albert! You're taking food out of the mouths of diversity outreach co-ordinaters and anti-smoking consultancy managers!

No wonder the council was upset with you...

A spectacularly useless spokesperson was wheeled out to explain the council action and did so, unwittingly revealing just how the council views itself and its livestock residents:
A spokesman for West Lancashire Borough Council said residents were asked not to put out black bags next to their wheelie bins because it attracted vermin.

Binmen were instructed not to take the bags away because it encouraged residents to break the rules.
If Albert takes the bags away, thay aren't there to attract vermin, are they?

And 'the rules'? Have you forgotten what the binmen are for? They are there to take away the rubbish, not ensure households stick to 'rules' made up by unelected officials, usually in Brussels!

7 comments:

David Gillies said...

We need a wholesale purge. Maybe one in fifty local government employees is fit for purpose. The rest should be sacked - with loss of pension - on the spot. To be in government should be to live with the constant fear of being fired. Instead, they have us quivering in terror lest we break one of the multitude of pettifogging 'rules' they have conjured up.

John M Ward said...

Once again we see how "rules" are imposed on councils. I have experience of this sort of thing from my time serving on a Conservative-run council, as West Lancs is for that matter.

Take it from me: we do try to resist this sort of thing, and often succeed — but not always. We are far more pragmatic than dogmatic (as history very slearly demonstrates) though not perfect(!)

Brian, follower of Deornoth said...

David Gillies,

I agree with the sentiment, but you are being too kind. There is plenty of rope in the country, and a lot of trees too.

Quiet_Man said...

You'd think they'd be praising him to high heaven and holding him up as an example to the rest of how it's supposed to be done. What a strange topsy turvy world we live in.

Joe Public said...

There must be the temptation to take the excess rubbish to the local council office.

Demand to speak with the Council Leader.

And walk out. Minus Rubbish.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Tragic, but you've summed it all up.

JuliaM said...

"We need a wholesale purge. Maybe one in fifty local government employees is fit for purpose."

As many as that..?

"Take it from me: we do try to resist this sort of thing, and often succeed — but not always."

That's easily remedied. And I think UKIP has the answer. Certainly, the Tories don't...