🏛️ Politics 3h ago · Ben Walker

Bin collections don’t win local elections

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If nothing is happening, why keep electing the same old faces? Why not try someone new? This is the mood music against which millions will cast their vote on Thursday 7 May 2026. After all, more than 50 per cent of us have little trust in our local councillors.



Local elections are not decided by bin collections. If they were, the party offering weekly rather than fortnightly or three-weekly collections would win a landslide. Instead, local contests tend to follow the national mood. In 2013, U

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