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Monday 19 October 2009

Brent Council Drifting

I often complain that the Liberal Democrat / Tory coalition running Brent Council suffers from a sense of drift. One example of this is recycling. When the Liberal Democrats tried to form a coalition in 2006, they circulated a proposal that prioritised waste minimisation. That policy was quietly forgotten.

The officers decided to introduce compulsory recycling instead. The compulsory element is something of a red herring, as the most effective part of the policy is the doorknocking to educate people on what and how to recycle. The very high turnover of the population in Brent implies that this education programme will have to be regularly renewed, although the Lib Dems and Tories don’t seem to have acknowledged this yet.

A second thing that I only recently heard Cllr Irwin Van Colle (The Tory in charge of Environment policy) admit was that Brent Council might very well fail to meet its 40% target for recycling next year. He seemed quite unconcerned that this might happen, and had no plan to avoid it. All that I could get was a promise from one of the officers to come up with some options by the middle of next year (i.e. after the local elections). It looks awfully like just loading problems on to your successors, in the same way the Lib Dems are with the Crest Academies.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

They are not drifting they are cast adrift, this regime, for that is what it is has been one of the worst most despotic since stalin.

We are going to have to live through a world wide recession, and cut back in our services, where schools and hospitals are closing down and ordinary things we took for granted are to be denied us because, this administration has lead us up the garden path to bankruptcy and misery for years and where are we, in Romania under a dictator with no idea how to run a country and thousands are denied a decent standard of living, no we live in 21st century Brent under this appalling coalition.

Roy Jones Willesden

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