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Getting rid of the skips was just another stupid idea by wir officials. I believe the skip contract wis only £60,000 per year, If they sacked the high paid official who came up wi da idea da Council wid probably have saved more!!

http://www.ifs.org.uk/comms/r88.pdf The institute of fiscal studies (IFS) today published a paper based upon the UK Government Quango the office of budgetary responsibility (OBR) forecast over the next 50 years for Scotland and the UK. Any report is unlikely to be accurate over that time period as life is full of uncertainties and the technological advances over the next 50 years are not likely to be reflected in the report. However although the report is being highlighted as being a blow to the cause of the independence campaign it also shows based upon the OBR forecast both Scotland and the UK will be in permenant deficit for the next 50 years. Austerity is the future both ways assuming no change in policy directions However OBR has historically underestimated the price of a barrel of crude oil and amount of oil still to be removed from the North Sea. In 2010 it forecasts today price would be $86 a barrel and it is currently trading at $108.55 The OBR figures do not include the potential £200 billion addition revenue over the next 20 years that Sir Ian Woods highlights in a report for the UK Government or the impact of the Kraken field that will shortly be developed of Shetland. With just these two changes the whole analysis and assumptions would change. Oil predictions will always be subjective but an alternative view to the impact on oil can be read at http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-oil-debate-for-busy-people/ Untangling UK current income and expenditure from current information is never accurate but two facts are clear that Scotland receives/allocated more expenditure than the UK average and also generates more taxes than the UK average. The same is also true for London.

Not exactly. There were issues with people putting dangerous things in the skips. Meanwhile getting rid of high paid council officials is a bit like getting turkeys to vote for Christmas. Is never going to happen as long as those officials can prevent it.

There is one slight(?) problem with this approach.... Pushing this position to it's extremes seems to suggest that, you too might end up 'bagless'

Ok. But even if the fridge/freezer had ended in the skip at least it would've had a better chance of being picked out of said skip and put in its rightful place and disposed of properly.

The idiots that did this are the same type of idiots who would have abused the skip system by putting the wrong stuf in them - fridges should not have gone in skips anyway. The abuse of the skips by builders, etc and the overfilling by all and sundry was also part of the reason for their demise.

Plenty evidence on this for a prosecution. This is not a 'result' of not having a skip to dump in as it would've been incorrect to put a fridge in a skip anyway - just someone who couldn't give a scoot.

Well done Frances. I hope someone recognises it. It's shocking how someone can do this.