In an email thread seen by MKFM, an ex-conservative councillor has compared the new wheelie bin rollout in Milton Keynes to 'living in a communist state'.
Alderman Paul Bartlett, an ex-conservative councillor for the Stony Stratford ward and member of Stony Stratford Town Council says that hundreds of streets in Milton Keynes will be 'turned into a modern shanty town' as the city council introduces wheelie bins to households.
"It's like living in a communist state with Milton Keynes City Council imposing four huge plastic wheelie bins (yes plastic) on thousands of residents," he says.
The Alderman contacted MKFM to state that a local labour councillor 'openly breaks the rules' with their bins. He stated "A [Cabinet Member] pushing this through does not have space for [their] own three green wheelie bins and leaves them on the street and one wonders when [they] will face a fine and where the additional bins about to land on [their] doorstep will go."
MKFM spoke to a Labour member of Milton Keynes City Council who responded that: "The three bins in question don’t belong to [the councillor], they don't have a garden. They are their neighbours and Serco left them there. They are also on their land. Not the footpath."
In an email thread seen by MKFM, Paul Bartlett, who sits as the longest serving councillor on Stony Stratford Town Council, likened living in Milton Keynes to 'living in a communist state'.
"Not only are households being forced in all but exceptional circumstances to have four huge bins, they will be prosecuted by the Council if they are left on footpaths.
"There are public safety issues and financial penalties for residents who through no choice of their own, are facing financial pain because MK City Council is dictating what they do with their rubbish.
"It smacks of North Korea".
