Conservatives claim they've fixed the potholes!

When my campaign team were out on the Alton estate yesterday they came across a Conservative newsletter which makes the amazingly impressive claim that "a large area was repaired on the Putney Vale estate at the junction of Stroud Crescent and Frensham Drive".

The reason this is so amazing is that also yesterday, I got a reply from the Housing Department about the pothole above, reported a few days ago by me, which just so happens to be at the junction of - yes, you've guessed it - Stroud Crescent and Frensham Drive (you know, the area the Conservatives claim they got repaired already!)

The thing is, the Conservative newsletter would have gone to print before I got this incredibly dangerous pothole on Frensham Drive fixed. And while we're on the subject, does the road in the background of the photo - that's Stroud Crescent - look like it's been "repaired"?

So what to make of the Tory claims?

Well, they claim they're also responsible for getting "some 200 potholes resurfaced." Again, I leave it to you to decide whether that's a believable claim - but at least they're finally recognising the scale of their neglect of our roads.

But why is it, then, that Danebury Avenue is still in an atrocious state and why only on Monday was the massive pothole in Tangley Grove at the junction with Danebury Avenue repaired after I asked for it to be fixed? Or Holybourne Avenue? Or Harbridge Avenue? Or Bessborough Road?

There's something just a little sad about claiming credit for something when you're actually responsible for causing the problem in the first place; and when what you're claiming is evidently untrue, and actually the result of hard work by someone else. I'm relaxed about this because I know local residents are aware of my long track-record on this issue, and it demonstrates perfectly that the Tories have no local achievements of their own to boast of!