As I drive about this beautiful county I have noticed lately an increase in various forms of rubbish, furniture, or white goods being dumped in lay-bys etc. Why on earth would this be? Could it be to do with the victorian, infestation inviting, miasma inducing, stink that is implied by a two-weekly rubbish collection? Could it be to do with the sorting requirements imposed by the wanabee dictators from their fluffy protected sad little offices at our local councils? Might it be to do with the arbitrary rules and regulations for access to the council tip which could only be made up by someone with a profiling fetish and an otherwise worthless tact for inflexibility that would clearly be wasted elsewhere? Could it be to do with the inane requirement at certain council tips to produce your council tax billas you enter the site, as though I would drive from Nottingham to Poole specifically in order to dispose of my hedge trimmings? Could it be because we are now subject to a set of rules and regulations of which the former DDR would have been proud, administered by a shabby collection of individuals who have been promoted beyond their ability to such a degree that even by holding hands they cannot find their way out of the fog generated by their own ludicrous efforts? As the summer approaches and the temperature rises, as does the stench from my little brown bin, can we expect some sense to permeate into these sordid little policies? Unfortunately, I think not. So long as we are prepared to allow them to continue to ride along on a tide of righteousness and self-importance while they,at the same time, are quite happy to persecute the public who they are supposed to represent then nothing will happen. If,however, we are prepared to resist when we are challenged because our bin is ever so slightly in the wrong place, or we are fined because of oversights in our sorting procedures, then we have hope. We, the British people, deserve better, and we certainly deserve better representation. We are scapegoats in the consumer rubbish agenda. We should not be made scapegoats, and we should not allow ourselves to be scapegoats. Reduction of rubbish at source - excess packaging, and the modern plague that is junk mail are just a couple of starting points. But it's easier to take on the public than well organised industry isn't it?