I do and i want to whinge about it....

mertonhave this new fangled recycling idea which involves us putting our empty cans and plastics into a purple box which they come and collect.

they wrote to us beginning of feb saying we would get a purple box (to match our green paper recycling one), to date our road (apart from the first four flats) havent received said purple box.

i have phoned them four times now requesting, on behalf of the whole street, a fucking purple box. all the other roads surrounding us have them but we got left out. four times now ive been given bullshit that they will deliver.

you can bet your arse that if i told them im with-holding my ctax until they give me a box they'd soon be on my case for unpaid ctax.

so i plan to tke a day off work and visit crown house (council offices) and mak a scene about how incompetent the fuckers are.

We have a blue bin for recylables and a green bin for non recycl etc. They now only empty the green bin once every two weeks which means by the time they come i also have several black bags at side of bin. As do my neighbours what tickles me is the council say they are doing this to save money along with enviroment. Now i have no problem with recycling and trying to do my bit for enviroment. But i fail to see how they are going to save money when the high summer hits because we are all going to be overun by a huge rat problem.

Our binmen here in sunny old Gosport won't take any bags that are not in the bin, not only that they will dig through whatever is in your bin and chuck in your garden anything they don't want to take.

yes the wankers keep putting up no ball game signs without consulting anyone but the old bastards who request them and the old gits forget they had children playing in the streets miserable old gits poor children cant play anywhere but so long as the old gits are ok !!!!
and bye old gits i mean wankers in their 50's !!!!!
and dont even get me atsrted on the lazy fucking bin men idol bastards

I still don't get why they put those no ball games signs on perfectly eligible pieces of grass. Its like the grass is reserved for walking/shitting dogs.

Without going into detail, yes I fucking do.

Given the oppotunity I'd line the majority of my council members against a wall and shoot the lot - bunch of fucking hopless, pocket lining, freemason, traffic fucking about, give away every bit of greenspace, spaghetti road laying, waste of fucking space.

ARSEHOLES the lot of 'em.

I know there's jobs to be done, but they have to fuck about with each and everyone and make sure it benefits themselves first.

Well - fuck it - I've had enough of trying to help the local area, if I'm getting abuse from both sides of the Chav divide - I'm leaving.

Lets get a vigilante mob together and start the revolution!

Lets just say I presently have a big problem with my local council, and leave it at that for now.

just throw the stuff in the bin. fucking purple box sounds like a load of greief sorting it all out anyway.

We have three bins now

Green - Rubbish
Brown - Garden Rubbish
Blue bag - paper

THe only thing which puzzles me is that you are not allowed to put bits of uneaten food in the brown one, because to me surely it will all decompose to make the same mulch?

Although, if the lid on the green bin isnt touching the bin they dont take it, end of story. They dont take additional bags or anything, you have to dispose of them yourself.

Actually where Im living now the council are quite good. Theyve even taken some people who own the boat yard behind us to court because they broke some order we had placed on em.
Hilarious stuff.

The bin guys round here are good as well. Theyll take anything we throw out.

Back in Birmingham though, bunch of jack booting twats.

We had a spell where the bin men would make more mess then they actually cleaned up thankfully now though they are superb, they take anything they can see what looks like rubbish, if its in a bin liner and anywhere near your property or if it looks like rubbish no questions asked its in the back of the van :)

The noisy bastards are always doing something outside my place. No idea what. When they've gone it never looks any different. Every couple of years they send me a letter telling me that they've had a request to remove the bus shelter between my house and the miserable old git next door, and would I please submit my comments. You'd think that they'd get the idea by now that he and I are never going to agree on the matter and I was here first.

sounds like the stupid old twat shouldn't have moved into the house if he knew there was a bus shelter outside!!

my council are just shit. they have decided they want to expand their main offices just at the time when they have massive debts - wankers

I've phoned our council 3 times to try and get them to fix the street lamp outside our flat- it's been blown over and the actual light is now about 30cm from my bedroom window- and still working- thus meaning that at night I turn my bedroom light off and the room is still so bright it looks like I live next door to Las Vegas.
Such fuckers.

Wakefield council are a bunch of dodgy fuckers.

At work, we own the domain name wakefield.co.uk, and the council use wakefield.gov.uk. We get a lot of their stray e-mail, but my boss never lets me read it. However, from what I've already managed to sneak a peek at, they're dodgy as fuck.

If you come to Wakefield you'll notice that there's traffic lights at every fucking junction. Completely un-necessary ones. I know this is because they had a "special deal" with the people who manufacture and install them.

Apparently Wakefield council was deemed within the 5 worst in the country, and was given 2 years to sort themselves out or be completely disbanded by the government, and a new council instated. Well, that deadline was meant to be last summer, and to the best of my knowledge they're still in 'ere.

Lewisham council also tried to take me to court:
Alleged Offender: Lil' al (obviously my real name)
Alledged Offence: Refuse left on the public highway

Fine: £50

To this day I'm not sure exactly what I did- as far as I can work out I put the rubbish out just like I do every week- still haven't paid the fine or answered any of their letters- I think they've given up now- that's probably why they won't fix the street light. Cunts.

Thurrock Council are a bunch of cunts, my Council Tax has gone up £300 this year and they wanted £12 to take a fridge away.

Lil' al spouted:
Lewisham council also tried to take me to court:
Alleged Offender: Lil' al (obviously my real name)
Alledged Offence: Refuse left on the public highway

Fine: £50

To this day I'm not sure exactly what I did- as far as I can work out I put the rubbish out just like I do every week- still haven't paid the fine or answered any of their letters- I think they've given up now- that's probably why they won't fix the street light. Cunts.

Sometime soon you might be recieving a court summons if they are anything like they are around here. However, you can usually get away by paying said fine immediately.

netniV spouted:


Sometime soon you might be recieving a court summons if they are anything like they are around here. However, you can usually get away by paying said fine immediately.

I didn't leave any refuse on the public highway and can prove it as I was in hospital when the alleged offence took place- I doubt they'd take it all the way to court though, especially when there's loads of people who haven't paid their council tax and things.
Lewisham Council have since put proper bins by our flat so I am counting that as a victory for me against the fucker who tried to fine me £50

merton will take away up to ten bags of garden waste for free, however you have to buy the bags from them.

i have a huge 40ft evergreen tree in my back garden thats out of control and desperately needs cutting down to a shorter height. its taking over my garden and my neighbours. we can cut the bottom banches but it blocks the sunlight.

for almost 2 years now ive been on at the cunts to get someone round to sort it out, with promises that someone would i found out last week that its down to my neighbourhood manager. finally now something might be done.

I actually work for the Council, in the HR department, so I shouldn't moan too much! ;)

They have recently split our water rates and our rent, which used to be paid together. They've taken the £5 a week water rates off the bill, which now has to be paid direct to Anglian Water, but then put the rent back up to what it was before it was split...cheeky fuckers.

Also, because we have blocks of maisonettes on our estate, everyone that lives here has to contribute to lightbulbs for the upstairs corridors! SHOCKING!

Hounslow Council: Where the merry fuck do I begin?

Been in the flat for three years, had my correct name and sex on the bill for about 4 months now. Had three different council tax bills in 6 months because one of my flatties moved out, and everytime I called them to get the new person registered, they would fuck it up. We just got hit with a massive arrears bill because they never actually bothered sending us the initial bill for (I think) account #2. They also sent it just before the Easter bank holiday,so we recieved it on the day they wanted it paid!

Such fuckers doesn't even begin to describe what a group of lazy felching knob-jocky jobsworths they are.

Why does a decent, upstanding, tax-paying young man such as myself have to deal with this crap, whilst scum get ignored by the bastards?

Soooo unfair!

Lambeth council= shit

It's one of the most expensive in London.
I can't for the life of me work out where they spend my hard earned cash. The streets are full of shit (usually discarded chicken boxes).
That's just the tip of the iceberg. I don't want to get on a downer this early in the week. So, i'll leave it at that. Bastards.

Lil' al spouted:
I've phoned our council 3 times to try and get them to fix the street lamp outside our flat- it's been blown over and the actual light is now about 30cm from my bedroom window- and still working- thus meaning that at night I turn my bedroom light off and the room is still so bright it looks like I live next door to Las Vegas.
Such fuckers.

Smash it. The lights buggered anyway, you may as well finish the job and get a decent nights sleep with the knowledge of a job well done.