George Galloway blasts Eric Pickles on weekly bin collections

From BBC News:

The government says it will make £250m available to help English councils keep or restore weekly bin collections.

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles told the BBC he believed the money would make a "significant difference".

The government says only councils which guarantee weekly collections for five years and demonstrate improvements in recycling and procurement are eligible.

But Labour's Caroline Flint said the money was effectively a bribe to councils to "save Eric Pickles' face".

More than half of English councils run some form of fortnightly collection.

Many have invested in technology to operate alternate weekly schemes - in many areas the recycling is taken one week, general waste the next - and say fortnightly schemes encourage recycling and minimise expensive landfill taxes.

But Mr Pickles called it a "basic right" for homes to have their rubbish taken away weekly.

Asked whether £250m was enough, he told the BBC he believed it would make "a significant difference".

"[Councils] already receive significant sums of money in order to do collections. This is not a bung, they would have to bid for a scheme to improve procurement, or to introduce incentive schemes for recycling or to introduce schemes whereby we look towards mechanical sorting of biological and recyclable waste."

"It will change a great deal... I think there's a recognition by all those concerned in the trade that this will make a significant difference."

The Weekly Collections Support Scheme is being funded by the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) - no other budgets would be cut to pay for the scheme, it said.


George Galloway goes off on a brief but epic rant against Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric 'Jabba the Hutt' Pickles for his policies. Galloway then decides to resort to ad hominem attacks against the Tory cabinet member by saying should the British taxpayer find drugs to prolong his life (referring to earlier subjects on the 30th September show) or get a gastric band for his fat frame because he is so pathetic or even resusitate him because he is so fat.

On top of that, he continues to attack the Tory government's plans to increase the speed limit to 80 mph. This is just pure personal attacks from a man who knows better...

Originally broadcasted on talkSPORT 30th September 2011.

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