The bin one showed the extraordinary stupidity of council officials, who, living in large detached houses in villages, didn't realise that the majority of people put bins out close together so it is easy for the ungodly to put their heavy rubbish in someone else's bin. It's actually quite similar in its way to this Barr dimwit.
But the schools thing is a real issue. Not far from here we've had reports of people from outside the area buying flats in the local slightly sink-ish estate, and thus driving up prices so as to make them unaffordable to locals. And why? To get into the catchment area of what they thought would be a highly regarded, well funded academy.
The fact that it's failed and is being taken over is just a kind of poetic justice, but in the meantime first time buyers have been screwed by the well off. Councils need to attend to things like that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
