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Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning
Dr_Barnowl writes "In an occurrence first postulated in sci-fi and later lampooned by stick figures, it seems that a blogger has actually been responsible for the mass resignation of elected officials — a British town council — largely by calling them 'jack***es' and Nazis. What's next? The deposition of a president with 'your mom' smacktalk?"
The editors here are stupid, ignorant, narcissistic, trolling assholes !!
I'm not naming names kdawson, and your alter-egos.
How cute. An Ender fan is all butt hurt.
---Counsellors are a different breed of people altogether, like Troi.---
I think you misspelled "prostitute."
Reduced bin collection to every *two weeks*
Sorry, I just don't understand the complaints on this front. The local council here does rubbish collection every week and recycling collection every 2 weeks. I put out one *small* bin bag every 2 weeks. I produce maybe 4 or more times the volume of recycling than I produce landfill rubbish. Now, I admit that I am a single person, but a family of 4 should produce less than 4 times the amount of rubbish than a single person, and yet we have people with the *large* 240 or 360 litre wheelie bins in the news complaining that over 2 weeks they produce far more landfill rubbish than can be accommodated in their bin. What the hell are these people throwing away? I would wholly support the idea of reducing landfill rubbish collections to every 2 weeks; I just wish my council would introduce kerbside plastic and tetra collections so I don't have to take that stuff to the tip myself.
Used anti-terror laws to conduct surveillance on people the council suspects of having un-approved structures...like a garden shed in the backyard.
Citation please. You don't need planning permission for temporary structures, such as garden sheds, so this sounds completely bogus to me.
http://blog.nexusuk.org
How cute, an Ender fan all butthurt his geeky satisfying escapist fantasy character written by a hack isn't unanimous; read the Iron Dream, asshole :p
"Credibility fail. Literally five seconds with Google would show you that this practice has become commonplace across the UK in recent years, usually against public opinion. The details of which recycling is collected vary by local council, but reducing general rubbish collections to biweekly is almost always involved."
Hi! I've not spent 5 seconds with Google (although I doubt "literally" 5 seconds is enough to enter the search terms and parse the results page) but I have spent almost 30 years living in the UK. I have friends in virtually every region of the country and can tell you that I know no-one who has bi-weekly general waste collection, and have only heard of three or four cases on the news, generally as a one off situation. So the "credibility fail" is all yours my friend, this practice, while not unheard of, is most ceratinly not "commonplace" nor "almost always invovled".
I can tell you that my parents ASKED for a smaller bin and were told to wait and see if they used the capacity of their big bin first, but after that the "nanny state" would be happy to oblige.
"Once again, containers not being put back outside your home after collection is a common problem—we've had four or five instances in the past couple of years—and to a household on a low income, the cost of replacement just so they can use the bin service they're already paying through the nose for via Council Tax, is a lot of money."
I wouldn't call 4 or 5 instances a common problem in, at least, over 100 collections. But even so, you seem unwilling to blame anyone but the council, when I find that often the bins are removed or jsut moved by residents rather than binmen (again not all the time, but once or twice a year, which would fit your frequency). Also, please give evidence of low income families being required to pay for a replacement for a bin that the council lost.
You get a breakdown of how much the "thousands" you pay in Council Tax (really, more than £2,000 a year? Where do you live?) goes to bin collection, the majority actually goes to Police, Fire and Ambulance services and various other local services.
I'm not saying bin collection is perfect, but you seem to have gone way over the top in your post.
Anonymous? Like a sniper, you mean? If you hide youself behind anonymity, you are no better than the bloke at the back of a crowd who jeers - or throws a stone, for that matter. People like you always talk about "freedom" and "rights", but what they mean is simply that they want to shirk their responsibility, like the free-loaders on society they are; true freedom comes with responsibility and obligations.
It is always possible - certainly in UK - to express your opinion without fear of prosecution and to be in loyal opposition. This was most recently demonstrated by the BBC inviting the clown Nick Griffin to participate in Question Time.