Apr 28 2007

Bin spin and sin - suggest a headline for Labour’s rubbish policy

9 Responses to “Bin spin and sin - suggest a headline for Labour’s rubbish policy”

1. # Peter Turneron 28 Apr 2007 at 10:42 am

   The PRIME PURPOSE for rubbish collection is as a public health measure - and it works. Everything else, including re-cycling, is secondary. If re-cycling was such a good thing and cost effective then rubbish would be a saleable commodity.

2. # David Anthonyon 28 Apr 2007 at 11:25 am

   Labour councillors disposed of at the polls

   Labour’s recycled policies dumped into the bin

3. # Richard Clarkeon 28 Apr 2007 at 2:34 pm

   Here’s a pretty good article summarising the causes of this problem

   http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2007/04/space-fillers-strike-again.html

4. # billyon 28 Apr 2007 at 6:41 pm

   Recycling Labour never works

5. # APLon 29 Apr 2007 at 7:32 am

   : “If they want to move to pay as you throw, I hope they will let us choose whose service we pay our money to, so there would be some competition.”

   What are the alternative CONSERVATIVE policies? So far you are simply making a fool of yourself telling us what the other parties are doing wrong. The truth is you cannot offer alternative policies with any substantial difference to the other parties.

   John, it is not about competition, that ‘wallah’ from biffra, knows what it is about, it is the bloody European Union. We could have as much competition as you want, we already know the cheapest method of waste disposal, it is land fill.If we use it there is no competitive advantage because the EU will fine the UK for using cheap landfill! Competition among waste disposal organisations cannot work if there is an overarching organisation deliberately disencentivising the lowest cost behaviour.

   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/04/28/do2807.xml

   You know that is the case, but I guess you cannot say so because Cameron has foolishly cast himself as being ‘green’, that together with his pro European Union policy stance.

   Here is how you could introduce competition, European Union competition. Pledge to reassert UK authority over domestic waste disposal and if you get elected at the same time pass leglislation making the UK immune from the financial penalties the EU will impose. The UK can perfectly well accomodate responsible and properly managed landfill rubbish disposal. Those well managed sites can even produce methane as a by product. But we cannot do that while being hamstrung by the European Union.

6. # John Stewarton 29 Apr 2007 at 9:08 am

   Hospital A&E closures in conservative areas should be the No 1, 2, 3 &4 issue for all southern conservatives. This is the reason why Labour will be wiped out in the SE local elections. People are not prepared to lose their A&E’s.

   When Labour lose every single councellor challenge Hewitt as to where her mandate is to cut primary health case (a basic Human Right) to political opponents.

   The Conservative party MUST stand up for their constituents on this issue - we will follow you in our tens of thousands

7. # Stuart Fairneyon 29 Apr 2007 at 10:45 am

   That’s a really succinct four point analysis of the spin, amounting to “it’s nothing to do with me, it’s someone else’s fault”

8. # Richard Clarkeon 29 Apr 2007 at 11:53 am

   By coincidence today here are two more excellent articles on this subject

   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/29/nbooker29.xml

   http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2007/04/no-wonder-they-dont-want-to-talk-about.html

   Seems to sum up the problem pretty well I think!

9. # aplon 29 Apr 2007 at 9:28 pm

   JR:

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