Now we are all unpaid binmen

I WOULD like to compliment Jayne Dowle on her recent 
article on recycling. She is 
the 100 per cent voice of 
common sense.

She’s so right, the PC 
brigade expect us to be 
unpaid binmen by delivering heavy bins from the back of our houses to the front, which is difficult if, like me, you are disabled.

I cannot remember what 
bins are which and often the binmen leave it anyway. We used to have a weekly collection for general rubbish, now here it is fortnightly.

It says on the council letter headings, “Working for You” – well, I think it is the other way round.

Finally, and of paramount importance, because I’ve 
worked in the pubic service 
for many years myself, it 
means money from the government to the council – 
they say “landfill”, I say targets, figures, money.

From: Peter Hyde, Kendale View, Driffield.

I USUSALLY read Jayne Dowle’s columns with pleasure but not this week.

Her criticsm of Louise Mensch MP (Yorkshire Post, August 13) came across as a piece of cattiness.

Louse Mensch gave it a try and until one tries something, one cannot possibly know what the commitment is or how it will affect the family.

She made a difficult decison, no doubt after much thought, and is to be complimented for at least giving politics a whirl.