It’s time to talk!

Izzy and Philip have joined the other Lib Dem Councillors in calling for talks to be urgently resumed to end the bin strike.

The two sides have not met since July last year. They are clearly far apart, with conflicting legal advice, but the only way to work towards a resolution is to start talking now.

Recycling levels have plummeted to an all time low, whilst fly tipping has rocketed and contaminated recycling bins litter our streets, garden waste collections have been suspended for a second year and people in flats and HMO’s with communal container bins continue to suffer frequent missed collections and overflowing bins.

Despite this the council are ploughing ahead with food waste collections, redirecting agency crews from container collections to do so.

The Labour leadership of the council appear to be caught, like a rabbit in headlights, totally in denial and afraid of doing or saying anything.

Lib Dem Group Leader, Roger Harmer said:

“Residents feel like they’re being used as a pawn, in a battle between Unite and the Labour Party. It’s unfair on them and is tarnishing the reputation of our great city. It needs to come to an end“