Open Bins Attract Vermin.
Poor old Willie Scobie the Labour councillor for Stranraer, sees himself as the bête noire of local housing authority Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership (DGHP). So miffed is he with DGHP for having the temerity to replace 400 sub-standard post WW2, leaking, expensive to heat, miserable shit hole cooncil hooses with 600 state of the art, semi-detached, eco houses funded by DGHP, D&G Council and shock horror the Scottish Government, that he has taken grumbling to a new level. Since being turfed out of administration in May 2007, Willie has submitted a grand total of 765 email cyber whinges to DGHP's complaints officer.
DGHP have had to spend £40,000 on an independent investigation into Councillor Scobie’s complaints. Rather unsurprisingly, none of them were found to have any basis in fact
So prodigious is Oor Willie, that it could reasonably be said, Voltaire was lazy by comparison. The amount of wasted resources in terms of DGHP staff time in dealing with Willie's cyber moaning was enough to have built an entire row of fabby new houses.
In a delicious piece of "get it right up ya" DGHP published a league table a league table of email complaints. Willie was top with 765, second, Labour MP Russell Brown on 203 whines; third Dumfries Labour MSP Elaine Murray on 190 grumbles; 4th Dumfriesshire Tory MP David Mundell on 129 hissy fits; and bringing up the rear Stranraer Labour Councillor Grahame Forster on 134 "why no's". Those crazy unionists...
The photo above is from a front page of local blatt, the Stranraer Free Press, with some poor chap who was left a note on his bin saying the midgie men couldn't take it away as it was opened by more than two inches...The poor sod, didn't realise that the sort of grumble that we'd all moan to a mate in the pub about would spur Willie into full on media action. "Alert the media, a man is unhappy at being asked to close his bin lid."
Certainly the comment from an anonymous council spokesperson, that "open bins would not be collected, as they attract vermin" has raised many a chuckle with those in DGHP and further afield. Poor Willie.
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Good on ya willie...they should give the man a medal...
I think it is a damn shame that more councillors are not as passionate about there constituants and our willie....good on ya>
All too often the large,( weve got the money so to hell with your rights, brigade,) companies of this country, think that they can brow beat members of society, the every day hard working , law abiding, citizen, who relies totaly upon the likes of mr. scobie, to make a stand on their behalf when things go wrong...irrespective of the complaint, weather it appears to be a big issue or not, should not be the bone of contention , what matters is the principal!!
All to often, we feel that due to triviality, we will not complain when our Tenancy agreement is blatently breached, for fear of being mocked, and therefore i think it is a blessing that we should have someone like willy to stand up to higher powers on our behalf. Its a crying shame that there are not more councillors who lead by example....so to you willy, if your reading this, i say BRAVO...your fellow councillors could learn something from you...good on you.
I am without doubt, that every one should get behind this man and support him ten fold.
i myself live in the stewartry area and can say, that the only time that i see a councillor is when they are looking for people to vote for them, then afterwards they tend to go into hibernation.
Willy, keep the good work up....i think you should be given a medal, and not treat the way DGHP are treating you...... the swinessss...keep it real willy.
Mark Webber
This man has only one agenda... getting himself in the local papers as much as possible.
There he is moaning that an able bodied man not having the sense to compact his rubbish more has been picked on by the binmen.
The vote to change the rules on rubbish collections went through unapposed so i'm at a loss to understand what he's moaning about now?
The poor binmen are at the front line of Scobies policy and he's in the paper moaning about their inflexibility.
Total hypocrit.
i've dealt with him, he's condescending,full of his own self importance and as much use as a chocolate teapot, but somehow he's seen as some champion for the locals.
Well i for one can do without him and hope that comes sooner than later
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