Leslie, asking a question about your achievements - or lack thereof - is only "nasty" if you're so delicate a blossom that public service shouldn't be for you. You arranged a "perfectly viable detour" did you? Surely you didn't "arrange" it: it was there already? How precisely did Richard Tracey assist you? What practically did he do? Is there correspondence on this? If yes, show us. Did the SNT heed your request for issuing on the spot fines? Why did the Sector Inspector disagree with you, and are you saying you politically interfered in our independent police force to over-rule him? I'm afraid you have form here. Whenever you're asked to show us what you've actually, practically acheived compared to the claims you make the reality is painfully thin. Emaciated even. Be it this. Or the claim that you walk round council estates every week but fail to notice a flooded play area left that way for a month because of your neglect (don't worry, Stuart got it fixed for you). The claim that the Longstaff estate - one of the most run down estates in Wandsworth - is in fact an idyll of beauty because of all you've done for it. It's called a rhetoric-reality gap. Leslie, it's the cheapest thing in politics to make unsubstantiated allegations against your opponents. It's quite another to substantiate them. As you see above, when I crtiticise you, I provide reasons for that criticism. You just make baseless, unpleasant claims - the political equivalent of a hit and run driver. So cite one personal allegation (vitriolic or otherwise) Stuart made against Miss Greening. Just one. Three years of blogs and Putney Papers are still online: just provide a link for us all to make our own minds up about. Plenty of policy disagreements: nothing personal, vitriolic or underhand. Why? Because Stuart specifically chose not to make his campaign so. And I suspect there are those who got to know Stuart through his campaigning on the overdevelopment threat (to name just one) you're largely responsible for who'd substantiate that testimony through their own dealings with him. Same can't be said for your spiteful and petty attacks on him - after years of council service together when he, evidently mistakenly, regarded you as a decent colleague - can it? But this thread isn't about Stuart King, or Justine Greening, or even about two Putney politicos having a dig at each other. It's about a serious problem this forum has felt strongly about for years. People want action - not puffed-up councillors claiming action but in reality doing embarrasingly little.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Bike Diversion	24/08/10 09:48:00	Simon Deahl
Re:Bike Diversion	24/08/10 09:52:00	Leslie McDonnell
Re:Re:Bike Diversion	24/08/10 13:14:00	Bryony Evens
Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	24/08/10 13:36:00	Simon Deahl
Re:Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	24/08/10 14:17:00	Alex Greenbank
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	24/08/10 14:32:00	Simon Deahl
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	25/08/10 10:27:00	Alex Greenbank
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	25/08/10 10:35:00	Simon Deahl
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	25/08/10 10:47:00	Alan Sherman
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	25/08/10 12:34:00	Alex Greenbank
Re:Bike Diversion	24/08/10 13:32:00	Adam Gray
Re:Re:Bike Diversion	24/08/10 19:02:00	Leslie McDonnell
Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	25/08/10 14:45:00	Lucille Grant
Re:Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	26/08/10 10:56:00	Jonathan Callaway
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	26/08/10 12:46:00	Bryony Evens
Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	26/08/10 00:21:00	Adam Gray
Re:Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	06/09/10 22:20:00	Leslie McDonnell
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Bike Diversion	06/09/10 22:29:00	Suzanne Taylor
Re:Bike Diversion	06/09/10 09:29:00	Alex Greenbank
Re:Re:Bike Diversion	06/09/10 22:10:00	Leslie McDonnell

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