Time for a response I think!
Politicians who put their head above the parapet deserve to get whatever is thrown at them by members of the public when they display ignorance's unworthy of their position in the public arena. There are a few members of our political class who display the perspicacity of a dying sheep, and I could name them Roger, but you might think that I am even more rude and arrogant than you already do. You are nice man, well-meaning but by your own admission on the thread where you, David and others spar over the market etc.; have shown your projects to be abject failures. Everything is someone else's fault in your world it seems.
If you had read the River Community page on Facebook, maybe you would have seen how ridiculous the whole episode was. Maybe you would see as so many others did, how seriously mirth making it all was. The whole thing brought about by the River Councillor who had not herself observed the problem she brought to the page, who issued orders in her usual off hand manner, who was not on top of her brief enough to know that spraying was due to take place within a few days anyway.
Frankly, I despair. Why do you people come on these forums at all? Paul makes some very sensible, brief but informative posts occasionally, but all you and that woman do is fuel the fire and fan the flames of people like David, oh, and yes me too!
My goodness, if you think I have been rude and arrogant already I could really turn it on for you. It is so much better to be nice, but encountering idiocy, claptrap, lunacy, grandstanding and self-promoting weaselling from any kind of person, especially politicians (from any colour of party) tends to, occasionally, make me blow a fuse.
It is good to see Paul that you consider the service level by KCC inadequate, and it is even better to know that DDC put in an extra session. Bravo. What is not acceptable is that this weedy joke of a situation has been caused in absolute totality by your Chairman and her failure as a Ward Councillor to investigate before jumping in. There are of course other useless Councillors, Teachers, Policeman and yes Estate Agent's, but with two notable exceptions, they keep off here so they don't get shot at.
The worst thing is that (apart from my wife!) everyone I have met since this all started has congratulated me - and that makes me sad.
