You don't seem to have understood my post at all Sam. Maybe I should re-present it in mindless Gilesian politico babble, perhaps laced with a pretentious Chiswickian twang?I don't have a "party" Sam, and I care not a jot about how many votes the Conservative candidates won in 2014 (although if I was cruel I could point out that the Independent Community Group stood in only two wards and beat the Tories in both, as it has done in Isleworth in every election since 1994 and in Syon since 2002). That wasn't my point. My point was what you would appear to be doing with the votes you received, and with the seats you won. The answer, from all the evidence which is available to us, would appear to be not a lot. Patrick, conspicuously a newcomer to this forum, seemed to have to take time out to 'phone a friend, or to consult the various comments from other contributors, before piecing together some kind of perfunctory response to the request for a position on the Brent Lea debacle. And he has still to acknowledge, let alone answer, any of my own questions to him.I don't understand the reference to Mary Macleod. She is an ex-MP, not an "opposition" to anybody. The national opposition is the Labour Party, and I was comparing its lack of a program which differs substantially from that of those in power with the similar situation which the Tories find themselves in locally. Just as, nationally, Labour seeks to imitate those it dreams of replacing so, locally, the Tories pay tribute to the regime in exchange for some pathetic semblance of autonomy permitted to them in the lands east of Kew Bridge.If another Tory who thinks the Scrutiny Committee is the gateway to revolution is your idea of a "strong voice for Brentford" on the Council then give me an "ignored" and "isolated" councillor - an Andrew Dakers, a John Connelly, a Luke Kirton, a Peter Hills or a Paul Fisher - any day of the week.Local people deserve better.
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