Rubbish vital issue in elections

The council elections were won, not so much by a switching of allegiances from Labour or Lib Dem to Conservative, but on the single issue of rubbish collection, a salutary lesson for politicians - they should listen to the people and not dictate to them.

People have had enough of "green" issues and recycling rubbish unpaid.

Why should householders who already pay to have their rubbish taken away each week, now be forced to store the stinking stuff for a fortnight and waste precious metered water washing out bottles and tins so the councils can sell them for undisclosed sums of money?

Not my words, but those of people after they had voted in the elections.

By embracing "green" issues David Cameron is likely to alienate the very people who could put him in No 10.

Certainly resources should be saved where possible, such as by burning or gassifying all rubbish to generate a third of our electricity, which is technically possible without pollution.

But growing biomass, and bio-ethanol that uses millions of gallons of water as well as half the food producing arable land, is sheer folly because, as in Mexico where maize prices tripled, civil unrest will result.

W F Kerswell, Picklescott