The council needs re-educating. to many pen pushers, to many of the big i am’s in the seats. who sit on there back side drinking tea all day and talking dribble.

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“LAST WEEK BINMEN FOUGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH “TREACHEROUS” CONDITIONS TO REMOVE WEEKS’ WORTH OF RUBBISH”

“SANDWELL SIDE STREETS WERE WITHOUT COLLECTIONS DURING THE RECENT COLD SNAP AS LORRIES WERE UNABLE TO NEGOTIATE THE ICY STREETS. SANDWELL COUNCIL PROMISED THAT STREETS WOULD BE CLEARED BY THE END OF LAST WEEK”

How courageous these people were!! They were obviously living in far worse conditions than the rest of us in the borough, after all the they couldn’t take the rubbish away but our postman was delivering our mail everyday, our Dairycrest milkman never missed a delivery, my wife went into her school job every day and I didn’t hear of the local superstores running out of products because their massive lorries couldn’t make their deliveries, the sooner the refuse collections are put into the hands of private contractors the better.

Message to SANDWELL COUNCIL NEIGHBOURHOODS CHIEF, COUNCILLOR MAHBOOB HUSSAIN council, if your vehicles can’t drive round the borough to do their job how about this for a radical idea, clear and grit the roads!!!!!

Before we hear the howls of anguish and the lamenting cries that the council cant afford to grit all the roads in the borough because it would cost too much, here is my answer to that argument see below!!

TAXPAYERS TOP UP COUNCILLORS’ PENSIONS
Taxpayers are paying into pensions for councillors across the region, the Express & Star can reveal.
Elected politicians at town halls are taking advantage of a special pension scheme to give them handouts after they retire.

The pensions, which were set up by the Government and started in 2003, are funded by taxpayers and are handed out on top of any pensions they might have for full-time jobs. There are 119 councillors across the region in the scheme, including Birmingham City Council which tops the league with 48.
Sandwell is second place with 21.

The Taxpayers Alliance has criticised the councillors as “careerists” who are trying to retire with public sector pensions from roles that are essentially voluntary.

Mark Wallace, from the Taxpayers Alliance, said: “I don’t think it is justified for any councillor to be taking out a pension at our expense.

These people are supposed to be public servants, not careerists with pensions the envy of the private sector. It’s a disgrace.”
http://www.expressandstar.com/2008/08/07/taxpayers-top-up-councillors-pensions/

I pay my Council tax to Sandwell Council to have my roads kept usuable, I didn’t pat it to enhance the lives of part time councilors.

Jim Gull, Bearwood

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IF ITS NOT COLLECTED SOON TAKE THE RUBBISH AND PUT IT ON THE TOWN HALL STEPS IT WILL BEEN SOON COLLECTED

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