Nothing changes...unless you change it!

Here's an example of why Putney, Roehampton and Southfields needs a Labour MP. Three years ago, residents of the Lennox estate - the estate at the north end of Priory Lane just by Upper Richmond Road - contacted us about fly-tipping problems the council was ignoring. They had tried to contact their three Conservative Councillors and got nowhere: they just couldn't be bothered.

A few days ago I held a walkabout on the estate with local residents and Councillor Leonie Cooper, Labour's Wandsworth Housing speaker and London Assembly candidate for our area, and what did we find?

Exactly the same problem unresolved three years later and after the election of new Conservative councillors despite the failure of their predecessors. And this is the problem: every single councillor in Putney is a Conservative - they have no interest in rocking the boat, making the council do what it's supposed to do, holding the administration to account. And Putney's Tory MP does exactly the same: side with her friends on the council rather than with the residents who elected her. She's done it over the closure of West Hill Library, the debacle over Wandsworth Museum, the embarrassing state of Putney High Street, and she does it time and time again by failing to take up bread-and-butter complaints like fly-tipping.

Here are three photos from the Lennox: the first two taken on our visit, the other three years ago. Can you see any improvement?