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Refuse Collection

That is indeed the case. We compiled our report in the run-up to the local elections, and many assertions were made in the press at about that time that nemesis would arrive for certain parties—different parties in different places—in May, when the electorate would take revenge on them. The interesting thing about the local election results is that some parties that introduced fortnightly collections lost control, but the changes of control were more to do with the political swing across the country. Some councils that had just introduced fortnightly collections, and whose main opponents ran on the platform that that was a big mistake and that they would reverse the policy, retained power. There is no evidence from the elections that AWC was quite the vote-losing policy that was suggested in the popular press.