PaulRogan

Calderdale's Tory Cabinet has decided upon fortnightly waste collections by wheelie bins. Not with widely tipped Spanish owned Focsa but with the French company Sita. Spinning and seeking to cover up the reality of taxpayers losing 50% of their general refuse service, the Tory Deputy Leader waffles at length about the new recycling initiatives in the package they have decided upon for us. Not surprising the DL let his cabinet colleague responsible for waste collection Councillor Graham Reason off the hook with this announcement. The notoriously well known ‘councilor bin-bags' is up for election in May and is often known to say things from the hip which he later claims are mischievous misquotes.

Well my dear and wise Tories, there would be a lot more recycling going on today had you not closed down all the village and community recycling points, or did you expect this had been forgotten?

Never mind, the Cabinet's statistic that more than half our residents positively want wheelies, some surveys claim even 9 out of 10, will guarantee that Councillor Reason gets a good night's sleep in the days before the election. On the other hand, different surveys have put those against wheelies at 7-8 out of 10. In Rastrick straw polls, there were 100% against.

Oh, and you can still have bin bags anyway, but only every fortnight and only if you are considered ‘wheelie inappropriate'. But who will decide if you are wheelie inappropriate?