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Armani and Trotsky
Torture in the Town Hall
Martin Rowson
Pa' Flanagan
Diane Abbott
News in Brief
A Very Personal Message
Festival News
The Cannabis Debate
Stokey's Baroness
Risk and Restaurants
Matthew's Gospel
Music Listings
Gifts for Green Fingers
Things For Kids to Do
Hackney Crisis
Speak Out!
Here Comes The Sun
Angry Brigade
Listing to Port
Our Man in the North Bank
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Speak Out!
by Joan E. Mitchell |
Our regular 'Speak Out!' feature provides a platform for those
who are angry, unhappy, fed-up or merely critical of something that exists or has happened
in Stoke Newington. The views expressed are purely personal and do not reflect those of
the magazine. For those who may feel aggrieved and who are mentioned in any article, we
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This rubbish business is getting tedious in more ways than one.
 Is it really the
council’s fault that walking up Stoke Newington High Street or Church Street on a
Saturday night compares very unfavourably with a stroll through Delhi at the height of the
monsoon season?
Is Hackney council actually running a crack commando team of carton-strewers,
chip-wrapper throwers and extruded polycarbon whatsit installation artists? Or should we
be pointing the finger somewhere altogether less comfortable?
I mean, who put the rubbish there in the first place? Not your little George, madam -
the one who just tossed his crisp packet out of his cute little people-wheeler? Sir’s
cigarette packet? Fell out of sir’s pocket, did it? And Young Crotch-round-his knees
Yoof, over there. That was YOUR can of lager while you were drinking it, wasn’t it?
So why’ve you left it balanced neatly on the top of someone else’s wall? Is it a
gift, perchance?
While the residents of Stokey-les-deux-eglises do indignant at the catalogue of council
cock-ups (and god knows, no one would attempt a defence at this late stage),
shouldn’t we stop, just for a moment, and ask who created all the rubbish that is or
isn't being collected today, next week or early in the New Year if you’re lucky?
We’re the ones who buy the stuff and everything it’s wrapped in. Not the council
- who after all, haven’t got any money to spend nowadays anyway.
So be fair. Let he who is without garbage cast the first wheelie bin. And pick up your
own crap, before any more of it blows in my face...
Camilla
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