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Waste food still not collected in Church Gardens after waiting a full week - truly Beyond Disrespect

So, Councillor Mafouz, all this ostentatious eating of humble pie in public and all your assurances are worthless. No 'Bicycling Bassam' or officers spotted in this neglected backstreet, and endless waits on Council phoneline (boy am I sick of that repetitive dreary whining muzak) despite claims of extra customer 'services' phoneline staffing.The story from Church Gardens, South Ealing:- Black sacks and dry-recycling green boxes were collected on normal day (Tuesday) last week but not the food waste. After waiting a day or two I phoned to report this last Thurdsay and (when I eventually got through) was assured it would be collected from this street by end of next day (Friday) at latest. It wasn't. So, phoned up again today, no explanation as to why the promised 'mop-up' late collection didn't happen - just an assurance that it would be collected by end of tomorrow (Wed). No answer to my query as to how we could be sure that would happen in view of last week's failure, or what we are supposed to do about the accumulated waste if it wasn't.Tomorrow is the due day for refuse and recycling collection here - day later than normal due to bank holiday. I have no confidence whatever that performance will be any better than last week, and am not prapard to risk being lumbered with this container of festering food waste - some of it now a fortnight old - for a further week or more, plus the last few days' further accumulation.So, all that will be going into the black sack tomorrow morning, as will all this household's food waste from now on. The weekly task of dealing with this muck and cleaning out the container after collection (otherwise it stinks) was a messy time-consuming stomach-churning weekly task at the best of times. I see no reason to be lumbered with it if the Council isn't going to bother to collect it or to rectify pronto if it's missed on normal collection day.Well done Ealing Council!!

Chris Veasey ● 5109d1 Comments

The question is whether this is part of deliberate political action.  The tactic of doing something so badly and interfering with smooth running and putting pressure on it and dismantling it so that it collapses and something new can then be introduced and hailed as the saviour of the situation all the while saying that the old system didn't work - did it? In the hope that history will be re-written and after a bit of brainwashing we'll forget how well it worked.Well the old system did work. It just needed further tweaking and progressing.Were there bicycling officers out or was it just Councillors.  I hope nobody, NOBODY was left sitting on a swivel chair behind a big desk and they were ALL out checking the situation.Sir Gerry Robinson would have had EVERYBODY out. It takes teamwork - and that includes executives.

Philippa Bond ● 5108d