tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28918367.post-82472990859849992032008-02-10T11:45:00.000Z2008-02-10T11:45:00.000ZMr Pickles, I have no personal axe to grind I am merely trying to establish why as you are a pointed critic of the Council’s administration (rightly so in my view as the Lib Dems do nothing for me in Cheam apart from gift me a nice big council tax bill for no tangible benefit each year) you didn’t contribute to a debate in the proper forum in which to do so. A debate, it must be added, which is of massive interest to people in the local area. <BR/><BR/>I am most certainly not planted for the Conservatives (although they usually get my vote but even more so following recent events). I’ll take anyone up on a point which I think is inadequate. For example the ten-pound bet issue was clearly a publicity stunt and we live in an age of political publicity stunts, but my point is the Tory councillor (I forget his name) that did it drew a lot of attention to the issue. In that sense he’s been successful albeit in a brazen way. <BR/><BR/>I’m puzzled by the sudden leap to bin collections – what does that have to do with the matter in hand? Namely Cheam Baths. <BR/><BR/>I have no political aspirations. I leave that to the politicians. Plus there are good reasons why I can’t. <BR/><BR/>I’m disappointed if you won’t continue to ‘debate’ with me, I thought that was the whole point of a political blog!michaelnoreply@blogger.com