Reply to: Wasted Council Tax

[CheeseSlice]

Reminds me of an occasion I was walking to work and an old lady came out and harangued me for leaving her bin in the wrong place. I said I'm not the dustmen and she said well, you look like one.

You need to tidy yourself up a bit, or do you always walk around in a high-vis jacket?

[Freamon]

Lets all move to Wandsworth!

£200K a year jobs, perfect council, your house goes up 15% every year, lovely people live there.....oh hang on.

You'll be safe if you move to the toast rack, nobody from this forum lives there*.

*Except for walter mitty fantasists.

[xoggoth]

Reminds me of an occasion I was walking to work and an old lady came out and harangued me for leaving her bin in the wrong place. I said I'm not the dustmen and she said well, you look like one.

[AtW]

Wandsworth Council has the lowest council tax in the country and the bins are collected every Monday without fail, and without question as to the amount, even if that is a Bank Holiday like Boxing day this year.A shining example of how to run a council.

Do you work for it? It would certainly explain why you bugger off hope 5:30pm sharpish.

[doodab]

That isn't the description of a slum, its a description of a typical rural village. Inner city slums get huge government subsidies.

They also have much higher population density which means that they have more income, and it's relatively cheaper per person to empty bins and maintain roads and so on. Especially in wandsworth where most people live in tower blocks with communal bins.

[xoggoth]

Maybe you should move out of a slum into somewhere normal people live?

That isn't the description of a slum, its a description of a typical rural village. Inner city slums get huge government subsidies.

[fullyautomatix]

Unless you want to, like, drive to work. Or have your bin emptied.

Don't let these little facts get in the way of making a cutting observation though

True, we mustnt forget those facts. The question is, does it justify them charging us 100 quid a month ? Councils = Waste has become common parlance. They waste more than the worthy service they provide. When some organisations get money handed on a plate without having to work for that money they tend to waste as much as they can on themselves.

[DimPrawn]

Maybe you should move out of a slum into somewhere normal people live?

Lets all move to Wandsworth!

£200K a year jobs, perfect council, your house goes up 15% every year, lovely people live there.....oh hang on.

[d000hg]

Maybe you should move out of a slum into somewhere normal people live?

[xoggoth]

Here we have no street lights, the roads are full of potholes, the council leisure centres are more expensive than the private health clubs, the car parks are 60p an hour, the local police house went decades ago, the main town police station keeps normal office hours and it's a 30 mile round trip to the dump.

Never mind! As long as it keeps a lot of f* council jobsworth in work and provides housing for hordes of the feckless, who's complaining?

[d000hg]

Bins are emptied infrequently and more times than not I take the rubbish bags to the dump, it’s less hassle.

Where on earth do you live? I must have lived in 5 places over the last 10 years from ultra-rural Cornish farmhouse to run-down chavvy estate, to middle-class new-build, and the bins have always been emptied barring snow.
Maybe they just don't like you?

There is a bus service that is council subsidised, it runs every ten minutes in each direction from 6am till midnight. The bus in empty until 8:30 and only has a few passages after the rush hour. All that wasted money and the council has an FNg green policy.

You can't try and get people to ditch their cars first with no alternative. You have to provide the alternative first and then wait for it to get used.

[sasguru]

Wandsworth Council has the lowest council tax in the country and the bins are collected every Monday without fail, and without question as to the amount, even if that is a Bank Holiday like Boxing day this year.
A shining example of how to run a council.

[Paddy]

Unless you want to, like, drive to work. Or have your bin emptied.

Don't let these little facts get in the way of making a cutting observation though

Bins are emptied infrequently and more times than not I take the rubbish bags to the dump, it’s less hassle. There is a bus service that is council subsidised, it runs every ten minutes in each direction from 6am till midnight. The bus in empty until 8:30 and only has a few passages after the rush hour. All that wasted money and the council has an FNg green policy.

[d000hg]

To save time. ALL tax is wasted.

Unless you want to, like, drive to work. Or have your bin emptied.

Don't let these little facts get in the way of making a cutting observation though

[darmstadt]

Wasted Council Tax

Greater Manchester Police officer writes off £33,000 car Few details have been released about the crash A police force has said it is considering changes to its driving policy after an officer wrote off an unmarked car during a test drive.

It was only a VW Golf FFS, admittedly the top of the range R version but the Daily Wail called it a 'supercar'