Did you ever say any of that to Peter, I wonder?
I see he thinks that all the flowers in the borough will disappear next year because of a remark by Graham Jones, someone he simply can't seem to stop referencing. Perhaps there is a more effective way of prettying up the borough, perhaps we don't need to buy force-grown bedding of a certain colour that only flowers for two weeks at the right time, perhaps there is room for economy in the 450+ hanging baskets that all need to be watered daily or the flower towers that cost the borough £47,000 per year. Perhaps if Area Councils had been reviewed earlier then the £240,000+ per year that it is said it costs to administer them could have been diverted into actually improving the borough rather than fancy calendars and expensive meetings that few residents turn up to.
Parks and waste collections are the thing that people see first when it comes to council services because they are right there in front of them. Anyone who seriously thinks that a Labour council will make those services worse and expect to survive needs their head examining.
I personally never had a problem with Environmental Services before and I certainly don't now. They were responding to my e-mails and photos of grotspots in Rishton long before I was a councillor, giving me log numbers and an update of when they were cleared. I would still urge you all to send your photos and a brief report to
[email protected] before adding them to the Accyweb gallery as you are far more likely to get something done about it.
You're remarkably quick to have a go at the council now that it isn't headed by Cllr Britcliffe, it's such a shame you didn't point out the flaws earlier so that he could take all the glory for sorting them out.
One might almost think that someone is pulling your strings on this forum.