• THE Conservatives in Camden are intent on making a molehill into a mountain (or rubbish pile).

Many of the leaflets they push through seem to be filled with one issue, the reduction of the rubbish collection, from weekly to fortnightly. In particular, they like to boast that the two neighbouring boroughs they run have maintained a weekly collection.

This being politics it is all very selective. So let me also be selective. The Conservatives are not telling you everything. In the two local(ish) boroughs they administer, not one, Barnet or Westminster, has kept even one day centre.

Camden to date is running at least four. Two for folk with dementia and two general ones for residents with a need aged 60 and over. One hopes it can continue but, as of 2017, Camden are still running day centres. This is a proud record of a council still championing the rights of the elderly and vulnerable.

It is even more of an achievement to have maintained these centres because, for years, now successive Conservative governments have continued to reduce funding.

Let’s keep this in balance. Reducing rubbish collections to once every two weeks means a council can salvage some funding for day services to the most vulnerable, I say cheers. As a society we are aging and more of us will need to access helpful services.

Learning what is rubbish and what is recyclable is not difficult if one applies oneself. We have an obligation to care for our beautiful planet and recycling does help. Camden, a Labour council, still tries to help folk, the Conservatives need to take leaf out of this and relearn what is most important in society – people.

DAVID GEAUGHAN-POWELL
Burrard Road, NW6