Complete rubbish
No I'm not describing this blog, although that would also certainly be apt.
Rather, I'm talking about the latest hair-brained scheme to get more money out of us. Now that it's getting hard to increase council tax by 500% every year, the councils need other ways of getting extra funds from us to pay for the Midget Lesbian Muslim Punk-Rockers Knitting Group.
The way they want to do this is to install an identifying chip into our bins so that they can be weighed, and then us billed according to how much rubbish we throw away. This is so monumentally stupid on so many levels that I'm having trouble restraining from just bashing the keyboard extremely hard in a random fashion just to DGHOJ AWROJSOTJSDOJSDOR ER FOGJFGOJZOGJS$T VJKFSDIO;GJ890P UTH3489TA'PRJK
Ok, I couldn't help it. I feel better now, so lets look at how dumb these people are:
1 - Everybody will fly tip. Or put waste in their neighbours bins. Or swap the chips with the widow at No. 23 who has almost no rubbish. People will end up guarding their bins with shotguns so that they are not over-charged.
2 - We are not responsible for the weight ourselves. If we buy something, it's not our fault that it weighs a lot.
3 - The whole damn point is that we are running out of landfill sites. Charging by WEIGHT won't make any difference to this, as the ground doesn't reject rubbish for being heavy. It's VOLUME that matters here. Of course, charging per volume is not at all easy, as each household's bin would have to be emptied, that batch of waste compacted and then measured.
What would be a better idea would be to cut the funding for the Midget Lesbian Muslim Punk-Rockers Knitting Group and instead give us a rebate (yes, Mr Councilman, it is a word. Look it up in the dictionary) based on how much we recycle. You can even do it on weight if you want, although that might make people buy everything in glass jars.
But what we need to do is solve the landfill problem. Obviously our growing populating is causing more and more waste. The reason our population is increasing so much is because of immigration from abroad. Now, given that our tiny island is full of Romanians and Moldovans, and Romania and Moldova are now more or less empty, we should ship our rubbish there. They must have plenty of available landfill space and not much to put in it, as most of their population lives here. A perfect solution, I'm sure you'll agree.
I hate councils.
Bah.
Rather, I'm talking about the latest hair-brained scheme to get more money out of us. Now that it's getting hard to increase council tax by 500% every year, the councils need other ways of getting extra funds from us to pay for the Midget Lesbian Muslim Punk-Rockers Knitting Group.
The way they want to do this is to install an identifying chip into our bins so that they can be weighed, and then us billed according to how much rubbish we throw away. This is so monumentally stupid on so many levels that I'm having trouble restraining from just bashing the keyboard extremely hard in a random fashion just to DGHOJ AWROJSOTJSDOJSDOR ER FOGJFGOJZOGJS$T VJKFSDIO;GJ890P UTH3489TA'PRJK
Ok, I couldn't help it. I feel better now, so lets look at how dumb these people are:
1 - Everybody will fly tip. Or put waste in their neighbours bins. Or swap the chips with the widow at No. 23 who has almost no rubbish. People will end up guarding their bins with shotguns so that they are not over-charged.
2 - We are not responsible for the weight ourselves. If we buy something, it's not our fault that it weighs a lot.
3 - The whole damn point is that we are running out of landfill sites. Charging by WEIGHT won't make any difference to this, as the ground doesn't reject rubbish for being heavy. It's VOLUME that matters here. Of course, charging per volume is not at all easy, as each household's bin would have to be emptied, that batch of waste compacted and then measured.
What would be a better idea would be to cut the funding for the Midget Lesbian Muslim Punk-Rockers Knitting Group and instead give us a rebate (yes, Mr Councilman, it is a word. Look it up in the dictionary) based on how much we recycle. You can even do it on weight if you want, although that might make people buy everything in glass jars.
But what we need to do is solve the landfill problem. Obviously our growing populating is causing more and more waste. The reason our population is increasing so much is because of immigration from abroad. Now, given that our tiny island is full of Romanians and Moldovans, and Romania and Moldova are now more or less empty, we should ship our rubbish there. They must have plenty of available landfill space and not much to put in it, as most of their population lives here. A perfect solution, I'm sure you'll agree.
I hate councils.
Bah.
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