Big Brother is taxing you

Sinister goings on at our town halls. It appears that 68 of them have already installed microchips in to our bins without even telling us. That is more than three million households in Britain who are well equipped to be taxed for their waste in Government "pay as you throw" proposals. This is despite the fact that a channel four survey revealed nearly two thirds of us are against the idea. It is quite clear that the Government is trying to force this extra tax through the back door and they are disguising it as green measure. It's primary purpose is more tax however and that is why there has been no consultation and the local councils have been very quiet on the matter.

Take the response from the Local Government Association [LGA] - apparently virtually all the current microchips were "inert", and that modern bins come already fitted with them. As if to say, "they just come like that, there's nothing we can do about it and the thought of using them to monitor households hadn't even crossed our minds". The Tories have done an FOI request that reveals the Government has directly funded the instalment of these chips. It also revealed that one in seven councils has the chipped bins, yet the LGA "-only know of 30-". Open government? Big Brother more like.