Lostintheplot - The Blog

Greetings, new readers and blog.co.uk refugees. Here is the first post of Mail Letters! There's a lot of stuff about recycling today. So let's see what L. West has to say:

According to Ashfield council, if either bin contains the wrong waste, it won't be emptied.
After a second offence, and investigating officer will visit, and following a third offence, there will be a fixed penalty notice for £110.
I have had my bins tampered with and I am not willing to be persecuted by the council for something I have not done.
Furthermore, the elderly or forgetful are likely to be harassed unfairly.

Plus ramblings about "yet another stealth tax" yada yada yada. What gets me is that she implies that elderly people are too stupid to know which bin to put rubbish in. Which is rubbish itself. I don't know how much information the residents of Ashfield get about recycling, but here we get plenty - most people can easily see what goes where. My grandparents (72 and 92) didn't recycle until the introduction of our scheme in August and now they recycle more than me!

Another recycling letter from Mrs C. McCarthy:

The public is being 'educated' in not putting the wrong items into their bins. In Soviet Russia weren't people sent to the gulags to be 'educated'?

Your point? People go to school to be 'educated' too - doesn't make teachers filthy commie bastards, eh?

Next letter from Mrs M Munro:

I read with amusement that Beverley Hughes wishes to introduce compulsory classes to force parents to sing nursery rhymes to their children.
In the 'politically correct' farce which Britain has become, I wonder how many nursery rhymes will be approved by Ms Hughes?
Baa Baa black sheep? Racist. Humpty Dumpty? Offensive to obese people. Three Blind Mice? Insensitive to the visually impaired

Etc, etc. I think we should ban them just to annoy Mrs Munro - who hates 'political correctness' so much, she says "visually impaired" instead of "blind".

Anyway, that concludes the first Mail Letters here. If there are any problems with the layout or something, don't blame me. If you can't access to post comments, I'll be monitoring the old site for a few weeks.