ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
Desperate stuff! not long til you need a new job Jenny!
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/dirty-full-rubbish-mp-jenny-8582691
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/dirty-full-rubbish-mp-jenny-8582691
The MP told colleagues this week that Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson had spoken out against the council proposals back in 2013, adding: “Notwithstanding the hyperbole, does the Minister share my concern that monthly collections will cause Cardiff to become dirty and full of rubbish, with a growing problem of fly-tipping, rats and seagulls?”
Clarkson wrote in a Sunday Times article that the move would mean “the entire population of Cardiff will be suffering from the bubonic plague”.
Related: 'Bubonic plague will hit entire population' says Jeremy Clarkson
In Parliament, Mrs Willott quoted Clarkson’s warning that monthly collections would cause “so much litter in the streets that rats and plague are sure to follow”.
Communities and local government minister Kris Hopkins replied: “Those sound like more wise words from Jeremy Clarkson.”
Related: Assembly Member calls Cardiff council's proposal for monthly black bag collections 'absurd' and 'unhealthy'
'We listen to residents not minor celebrities like Mr Clarkson'
Cardiff council’s cabinet member for environment, Councillor Bob Derbyshire, said the authority would take on board what residents said – not “minor celebrities” such as the Top Gear supremo.