Councils 'plunder' their dustcarts?
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A POLICY MOTION in the preliminary agenda for the Nalgo annual conference in the Isle of Man in June reaches new histrionic heights. It arrogates to paid servants the right to tell their employers, the ratepayers` democratically elected representatives, how the ratepayers' money shall be spent.
The use of contractors instead of direct labour, says the resolution, "places short-term profits from the plunder of public assets before the longterm economic health of the nation." Councillors who save the public hundreds of thousands of pounds by switching to contracted refuse collection are by dictionary definition "forcibly and systematically robbing" the electors and "violently or dishonestly acquiring" their own property.
The crews are apparently the loyal servants of the people and the officers, who refuse to pour vast sums of the people's money down the drain so that well-paid (some might say over-paid) council workers can suck it out again, are the pirates. Goebbels himself would have admired such brazen manipulation of the truth.