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RESIDENT ACTION: Labour Councillor Porkies and Bin Chaos - They Promised Weekly You Got Fortnightly (if at all)

 

 

Another MASSIVE Broken Labour Promise
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UPDATED (16/4/26):  Now with added ACTION. The Labour Leader of the Council, Shirley councillor Alex Winning (he's up for election on 7th May), does not seem to know who or when it was done.

RESIDENTS ACTION 

1. We supply email addresses to you for councillors and MPs who voted to cut your bins from weekly to fortnightly. 

2. Send them an email to ask them why! Just click the link to see their councillor page, and get their address to email them. 

 

A Whole Pork Pie from Southampton
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3. Then contact us to tell us what the councillor or MP says, or if they even bother to reply.

4. You might need to do this very soon, as some of them might not be councillors for much longer as they might be voted out or may have already checked out (Mike Denness and Lee Whitbread, for example, as reported by us)! 

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Letter to the Daily Echo 

A reminder: Labour councillors voted through cuts to bins but spent millions of YOUR CASH on "arts" at the scandalous Satvir Kaur's Arts Complex instead of the bins, a basic Council service that has failed time and again, while they put Council Tax up and up. Vote them out on 7th May.

 

Dear Editor,


I read with anger your report of:

Southampton fury as littering leaves high street as 'absolute dump'


It isn't just Shirley High Street that is a mess, lots of Council land is also a mess. And it's Labour's failure and cuts that have caused it.

Both Labour councillors quoted - Cllr Savage and Cllr Winning - speak as if it was nothing to do with Labour bringing in fortnightly bins.

It was precisely to do with Labour - Labour councillors voted through fortnightly bins in February 2017. I was there in the Chamber and watched them do it. 

I spoke against it and voted against it as Independent Redbridge councillor. The other two independents from Coxford also voted against it.

Worse than that, Labour promised "to keep weekly bin collections". It was another broken promise.

The minutes show that Councillor Savage voted for it, as did current Labour councillors Blatchford, Bogle, Denness, Keogh, Letts, Noon, Payne, Rayment, Shields and Whitbread. That's a total of ELEVEN Labour councillors. 

Plus, who could forget, Satvir Kaur and Darren Paffey, now both Southampton Labour MPs.

So if Cllr Winning thinks it was 20 years ago. It wasn't. And if he thinks somehow his party didn't have anything to do with it. He's wrong.

All he needs to do is ask Cllr Letts, who was Leader of the Council at the time. Perhaps Winning and Letts are not on speaking terms?

Southampton people know what to do - vote Labour out. Enough is enough.

I enclose a link to the minutes online. Minutes of Feb 2017 Full Council: https://www.southampton.gov.uk/moderngov/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=122&MId=3274&Ver=4

Regards,
Andrew Pope
Former Redbridge Councillor and Candidate for Redbridge
Independent Network
Southampton Independents

Andrew Pope at Millbrook Towers
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