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Rubbish Party leader Sally says waste policies are just garbage
SOCIAL media was set alight on May 4th, 2017 when the leader of the Rubbish Party secured a shock council seat in Irvine Valley, Ayrshire, writes SAMUEL McKEOWN.
Mother-of-four Sally Cogley has lived in East Ayrshire for 20 years, but before her shock victory felt dismayed by the trashing of the countryside and decay in local towns.
The Rubbish Party was created in April 2017, and Sally’s triumph came after standing on a platform of ending waste, and a pledge to clean up litter from the streets.
She said: “I initially set about tidying up on my own with a hi-vis jacket picking up litter, which came to the attention of others who felt the same. This in turn led to me joining the local community council.”
In 2010, Sally decided to organise the Big Community Litter Pick – the idea being to galvanise others who had enough of litter and fl y-tipping in East Ayrshire. Community support came from a variety of groups and individuals. This has now been an annual event for the last seven years.
In 2016, Sally then turned to cleaning up the River Irvine – famous for salmon – from source to mouth with great success.
The Rubbish Party leader realised there were a number of empty and derelict listed buildings belonged to the local council.
She said: “I could not understand how this could be allowed to happen to community assets, and was horrifi ed when I found out one of them even had millions of pounds in potential grants available to help renovation.”
I relayed this to my family, and they all chimed: “What a load of rubbish!” Hence the party name.
She said: “Rubbish is harder to fully defi ne than to recognise, but we all know what it is.
“Rubbish is all those policies and practices, which should be eradicated from our local communities and about which we say to ourselves ‘what a load of rubbish!’ It is not just litter.
“My motivation to become a local councillor was to challenge other councillors who were more preoccupied with national issues such as Scottish independence, Brexit, or using their position as a potential stepping stone to national politics than concentrating on community issues.”
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24 SHM June, 2017
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