Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Recycling

Ok if Leeds can do it, even seen them in Cologne (no surprise there are the German's seem to be able to do everyday living far better than we can) they why doesn't York have recycling bins in place of the big black ones?

The council is encouraging everyone to recycle at home and it's apparently working really well and saving money, so why aren't they doing what other cities are doing by having public bins that collect rubbish in separate compartments?

Probably the grey suited bean counters with interesting names and social lives have some argument that to implement it would cost to much and we'd have to stop feeding the elderly and sell them to human traffickers or something, but being in power is about making decisions for the good of the city in the longer and not for short-term political gains. The decisions are not easy but you vollunteered for the job.

Surely if the pretending capital of Yorkshire does it then the actual capital should be doing it.

In fact we should be leading the way.

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Lax Attitude To Our Cash (from York Press)

I can’t believe that the council is actually considering this as an option for several reasons.

  • Why should tax money subsidise people who wont pay their bill. (If I didn’t pay my mortgage then my home would be reprosessed.)
  • Do the council think that the people who don’t pay would really want to see a West End show? Most of them probably don’t know how to tie their show lace, never mind have the brain power to appreciate a play or an opera.
  • What is the point is spending £53k to gain a profit of £8k? No commerical business would really put their effort into this.

So what would be my solution be I hear you ask for those that don’t pay?

  • Firstly if you don’t pay you rent then you get no local services - post, bins etc etc.
  • Secondly - you get named and shamed in the local paper.
  • Secondly you lose benefits until you pay up.
  • You get taken to court and the baliffs get called in.
  • You are evicted.

There you go - if you pay nothing then you get nothing back and you home gets used by someone who probably deserves it more.

Lax Attitude To Our Cash (from York Press)