The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
5 October (Part 2) - Refuse disposal costs
After casting doubt on Bexley council’s claim to be
London’s top recycler
- the figure relies on Bexley throwing away far more food and garden waste than other boroughs - and
seriously doubting Bexley council saved anything last year on refuse collection,
let alone the £3 million they claimed, someone sent me these council documents.
They show that however you dress the figures up, refuse collection is
costly. Bexley spends £44.83 net (sum of final column, Figure 1) on
collecting the average household’s rubbish. If you are one of the many who
considers refuse collection to be the only service you can see the council
providing in return for your council tax, it is obviously not much of a bargain.
However the figures do show exactly what I suspected; ‘manufacturing’ more
compost is costing a lot of money but it helps boost Bexley in the refuse
recycling league table. If a quarter of the amount collected was composted at
home the saving would be little more than fifty pence per household but Bexley
would fall dramatically in the league table. It’s not much money to spend on
boosting Bexley councillors’ egos. If you love Bexley council, go out and clip your hedge.