Southend Council approves £10million cuts (From Echo)

YIPEE, no more noise pollution from those horrid jets

Carnabackable wrote:
YIPEE, no more noise pollution from those horrid jets

just for 2 days of the year..we have it 365 days now from the airport as loads of new routes are given. YIPEE

Like I've said all along airshows are for Biggin Hill, Southend is for Candy Floss

Byeseebye to the Southend airshow
For it will be no more, it's gotto go go.

Byeseebye to the old black bin bags
Hello to the blue, for yer old loved, glad rags.

Byeseebye to the spy car moaners
they're out n about catching yellow line roamers.

If there are £10,000,000 cuts then why is our council tax going up?

The AirShow is less than the tip of an iceberg here. Where do you think £10 million is going to axed from?

We are on a frightening "tunnel of fear" journey this year. Just wait and see what happens when services are cut, and those who cannot complain start to suffer.

So, no Southend Airshow, unless a corporate sponsor can be found, which is unlikely given the time factor. This will hit some of the local businesses, although I'm pretty sure none will go under as a direct result.
The much-publicised threatened cuts to adult & elderly care (including, I believe the closure/privatisatio
n of at least one council-run home) are worrying to say the least. However, I need to study the budget in more detail before I can comment further on this issue.
The ending of free black bags for all may not seem to be of great importance, but I feel it is. I fear that many people will use their existing stock of pink recycling bags for general waste (I understand these will still be distributed free as well), meaning that neither the general or recycling waste teams will collect them, resulting in rubbish being left on the streets, attracting vermin of various forms. I can also see the possibility of "jobsworths" refusing to collect any waste that may be left in other bags, such as carrier bags, resulting in the same situation. I'm not saying that we must keep free black sacks, but it would be nice, merely that we need to ensure this doesn't cause a build up of uncollected waste on ours streets.
Like others, I think this is only the beginning of what will be a very painful process for the residents of Southend.

Does the abolition of the free black bags mean we can revert to our old black plastic dustbin and leave that out for emptying????? Much more hygenic - no foxes, no rats and much tidier. Hey Ho - we pay exhorbitant rates and the services we get in return are diminishing rapidly.

Why should Southend residents get free black bags anyway - seems crazy when no other council gives them away. Where do they distribute them, as I might pop along for some :)

Pink bags, I can understand.

Maybe Southend, should become part of Essex again and stop being a unitary authority?

Nebs wrote:
If there are £10,000,000 cuts then why is our council tax going up?

It would have been 17 million cuts, had the council not been increased...