The one thing that people want from their council tax is the regular, predictable, emptying of their bins. We have taken the trouble to separate our rubbish as asked and we just want the rubbish taken away. We’ve paid for the service in our taxes. The lorries are ours and the operators work for the Council.

It is not advanced theoretical physics. We’re not putting a man on the moon. It is just a matter of sending bin lorries on the same day, every week. It is obviously beyond the present leadership of the Council. When we hear the phrase ‘what a load of rubbish’ these days in Alwoodley it seems to have two meanings.