Council expert slams Hull’s spying strategy

Tuesday, 18th May 2010

Meddling council bureaucrats have been accused of attempting to spy on residents after providing households with diaries in which they are supposed to keep track of the way their neighbours put out their rubbish.

UKIP councillor and local government spokesman Pete Reeve slammed Hull council for producing the ‘environmental crime incident diaries’ and even asking residents to supply photographic evidence.

“Even as David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s coalition demands a smaller state, Lib Dem controlled Hull City Council is embarrassing itself with this dictatorial and subversive spying scheme.

“I thought we’d heard the last of friends and neighbours being asked to spy on each other with the fall of the ruthless European Communist regimes, but now this council is recruiting a whole new bin Stasi.”

Mr Reeve, recently re-elected to Huntingdon council on a wave of grass-roots support, continued: “And anyway, if the council cares so much about the way its residents put out their bins it should be checking up itself, not getting its taxpayers to do its dirty work.”