Will your bins now be collected once every FOUR weeks? Senior council leader warns cuts to frontline services are inevitable after funding is slashed again Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2879873/Will-bins-collected-FOUR-weeks-Senior-c

BigAndy9 wrote:Labour - i absolutely fvcking hate you!

ALLAKAKA wrote:


 I wish they would do the door to door canvasing they used to , you could put the bodies in the bin and nobody would know till after the election.





   

Flix wrote:Why has everything suddenly well not so suddenly begun to cost so much? Our local council had at least one worker in every village and a few in each larger community, to clear snow and keep the villages clean, our cemetery had two grave diggers/caretakers, the bin men had a lorry with up and over covers on both sides, the bins would be manually lifted and emptied into the lorry (Mostly ashes - heavy) the lorry doubled as a griting lorry in winter with the bin me riding in the back with the covers off of course shovelling grit onto the road, there were about four men, one driving and three collecting and emptying bins they were all paid a wage and all had a pension at the end of it and it was paid for by rates in the area - labour intensive and we could apparently afford it, bring in lorries to automatically empty the bins, cut the number of workers  and now we can't afford it - what's happened?

Flap Gallagher wrote:I should point out that our bins are emptied 7 days a week

Costa wrote:

Flap Gallagher wrote:I should point out that our bins are emptied 7 days a week

I think its the same in most Med countries, in Spain they came every night at midnight and woke up all and sundry, clattering them big communal bins about. But yeah, much preferred it. And during the night they would also spray wash all the roads and pavements.

Flix wrote:Why has everything suddenly well not so suddenly begun to cost so much? Our local council had at least one worker in every village and a few in each larger community, to clear snow and keep the villages clean, our cemetery had two grave diggers/caretakers, the bin men had a lorry with up and over covers on both sides, the bins would be manually lifted and emptied into the lorry (Mostly ashes - heavy) the lorry doubled as a griting lorry in winter with the bin me riding in the back with the covers off of course shovelling grit onto the road, there were about four men, one driving and three collecting and emptying bins they were all paid a wage and all had a pension at the end of it and it was paid for by rates in the area - labour intensive and we could apparently afford it, bring in lorries to automatically empty the bins, cut the number of workers  and now we can't afford it - what's happened?

Flix wrote:Why has everything suddenly well not so suddenly begun to cost so much? Our local council had at least one worker in every village and a few in each larger community, to clear snow and keep the villages clean, our cemetery had two grave diggers/caretakers, the bin men had a lorry with up and over covers on both sides, the bins would be manually lifted and emptied into the lorry (Mostly ashes - heavy) the lorry doubled as a griting lorry in winter with the bin me riding in the back with the covers off of course shovelling grit onto the road, there were about four men, one driving and three collecting and emptying bins they were all paid a wage and all had a pension at the end of it and it was paid for by rates in the area - labour intensive and we could apparently afford it, bring in lorries to automatically empty the bins, cut the number of workers  and now we can't afford it - what's happened?

Flix wrote:We now have incredible technology which has made life easier in some ways but when it isn't used properly or doesn't work right you end up in an incredible mess. Not to mention lots of people with no work. I'm not sure what the majority of the human race will be doing when robotic machines take over just about everything, probably fighting for space, food and water. The social aspect of taking people off the front line of services is another problem some people don't see a living soul to talk to for days on end, then you see people out and about head down and texting I've no idea how they have so much to say texting and so little to say verbally to the person next to them, unless they are texting each other of course. I used to like going to our local and having a good old chin wag with the locals, now we have no pub and the others that have survived are basically food outlets or your chest vibrates from the loud music and you have to communicate with hand signals. Not all advances are good ones.