Such as having residents who will put up with a second rate service even though we pay the highest council taxes in Greater Manchester?
Okay, maybe I need to spell it out more bluntly.
Maybe Stockport has more staff off work than Manchester.
Maybe Manchester residents produce less garden waste per household so it's easier to restart.
Maybe they have more trained HGV drivers that they have been able to redeploy onto bin lorries.
Maybe they have cut some other services that others would consider critical in order to do the bins.
Maybe Stockport have taken the decision to keep collections suspended in order to help protect their staff who cannot easily self isolate due to the size of a bin lorry, whilst Manchester have gone "sod it, people need to be able to garden is far more important than the safety of all our staff."
Maybe - just maybe - Stockport are about to restart green bin collections and haven't announced it.
And let's also be extremely blunt here. Until very recently when Oldham took the top spot, Stockport had the worst - THE WORST - rates of Covid-19 in Greater Manchester. The North West has more cases than London. We are in the middle of a major pandemic. We have the worst death rate in Europe
My green bin is full because I had to trim the hedge at weekend. And you know what, I do not care one bit that it is full because frankly it does not matter one bit.
By the way, Tameside never suspended theirs. If you are going to moan and try and make comparisons without information, pick a good one.
