Milord Moylan
Despite Lordly Moylan liking to boast of his intellectual prowess it is fair to say that he and common sense were firm enemies.
When on the council Lordly decreed all 'street furniture, including litter bins should go: wise counsel did not prevail despite officers suggesting people would throw their litter on the streets and leave the hard-working Suez street cleaners to clear up.
Wandsworth has temporary waste sacks fixed to railings so that people have somewhere to chuck their rubbish. In K&C ours have all gone so now street cleaners have to spend hours sweeping up and disposing of cans, food packages et al
This is one of the reasons the Suez contract is costing taxpayers a fortune.
In areas where there is persistent litter.... such as surrounding garden squares, the Council should mitigate His Lordship's crass decision by re-installing rubbish bins.
RBKC covers just 15 sq miles with a population of about 140,000; without industry or agriculture. Yet RBKC pays a monumental £25 million pa for residential waste and street cleaning only. This is about double what it should and excludes recycling.
ReplyDeleteWaste services were privatised in 1995. Since then London has had a waste cartel, where competition between contractors is apparent rather than cut throat. Old RBKC hands tend to find the situation highly amusing.
In about 2000 RBKC signed a revolutionary recycling contract, by which residents pay handsomely for this service as well. Elsewhere in UK, local authorities are paid to deliver "recyclate;" aka valuable recoverable materials. If memory serves, one
Cllr D Moylan was particularly engaged in RBKC's cutting-edge recycling project.
Entirely agree that we need rubbish bins back! Small poo bins attached high up on lamp posts are not big enough to dispose of food packaging. We live between Gloucester Road and Earls Court stations and our pavements are daily littered with waste from various fast food outlets. Of course not everybody would use a bin, but a substantial number would - as seen by vain attempts to use the poo bins for this sort of rubbish.
ReplyDeleteMoylan was not connected up with common sense and did huge damage to day to day conveniences in urbanly dense RBKC. Thank goodness officers managed to keep him away from the public toilets
ReplyDeleteI take great offence to the reference to 'public toilets'.
DeleteTruth hurts
DeleteRBKC's dodgy recycling contract results in residents receiving ever fewer recycling bags. Each home used to receive packs of bags 3 or 4 times a year. Now it's just one pack twice a year; or nothing. So despite endless council promotional campaigns, there's ever less recycling. If the official statistics "prove" otherwise, waste stats are known to be fictitious.
ReplyDeleteIt's no accident that very few people know where to obtain an additional, free pack of recycling bags. Very few people have the time to do so anyway.
There's also the issue of street cleansing. What street cleansing? In many places, RBKC streets are simply filthy and litter sits for days @ £25 million a year!
I live in North Kensington where there is constant people traffic and we have no rubbish bins or poo bins. Consequently our front gardens are used by people who put their empty coffee cups and sandwich wrappers along with the left overs of their takeaways on top of our dustbins or on our wall. Why am I paying an outrageous amount of council tax for what exactly. This obnoxious social climber has created chaos for a long while and I wonder why the council always seem to bow to his wishes.
ReplyDeletePrecisely. Imagine such things happening in the "right" areas of Kensington and Chelsea! Unless and until the residents of N. Ken learn to be mega rich and vote in an appropriate manner, this and countless other public nuisances will continue.
ReplyDeleteK & C residents must "earn" services by expressing endless gratitude for whatever stale crumbs Hornton St. deigns to toss in their direction.
Emma Dent Coad (EDC) once made a point of proclaiming to me, "Moylan is Gay!" God knows why? Who cares. Emma does.
ReplyDeleteDid EDC get barred from the Palace of Westminster or was she only barred from standing as a Labour MP?
She's not barred from the Palace of Westminster - shame
DeleteShe should be barred from the Commons. Her posterior will never be destined to those green leather benches. She has had her day.
DeleteLet's all move on & just leave the old witch to dissolve in her own bile
ReplyDeleteHer bile is very bitter.
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