Rubbish collection severely disrupted by strike action (From Your Local Guardian)

As a chronic hospital patient I have a lot of sympathy with those who are on strike. Although the focus is pensions today I think that seeing British people stand up for themselves for a change will garner widespread support from others who are aggrieved but don't have much muscle once the usual democratic process have let them down because of the way this government is bulldozing through action which would have been unthinkable and for which they have no mandate. I am thinking especially of the radical changes that are being forced on our local hospital services by a myriad of unelected quangos and technocrats that even our elected local politicians seem powerless to stop. I am also thinking of the iniquitous ATOS contractor who is being paid to test disabled people on incapacity benefits and fail as many as possible in a cursory and unsatisfactory way that sees 50% of their decisions reversed on appeal when the cased is examined properly. Country short of cash? Yet no trouble finding £151,000 for the Wilko Grass Wall or Speaker Bercow of the Commons spending £38,000 on a portrait of himself as if a digital photo is not more than enough. Our leaders want to cut us while it's business as usual for them. When the Guardian gets its photos of uncollected rubbish it wants for some reason I won't be thinking Oh how dreadful; rather good to see us Brits standing up for ourselves for a change and not taking lying down all the grit we get from the bankers and politicians.

Agree entirely with everything with Mr Pantlin.........

Send your pictures of uncollected rubbish to mwatts@london.newsqu
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Get a life Matt Watts- has anyone actually sent you in some exciting photos of wheelie bins