“All politics is local.”

— Tip O'Neill

Wandsworth Council quite clearly have so much money they can just piss it up against the wall.

There's an interesting example of digging holes and then filling them in again happening on Lavender Hill. An act of such pointlessness it would be funny if it wasn't for the fact the taxpayers are taking a beating again.

Lavender Hill had pavements in red brick. Bricks tend not to break and fracture like concrete slabs. The pavement is therefore in pretty good condition (excepting the non brick, stone slabs outside Battersea Arts Centre).

The brickwork pavement in Feb 17. Pretty good condition, no? Gone. A memory.

So what are the Council doing? Digging up and skipping a perfectly good pavement and then putting down another.

As an act of pointless waste of tax payers' money this is quite high. I literally cannot understand what the hell they are doing. Maybe, they signed some bullshit deal with a contractor that means they have to rip up the pavements every X number of years. Irregardless of condition.

Wandsworth is a Tory Majority run council. You can't trust the Tories when it comes to money. I suppose they had to justify their 3.99% council tax increase in 2017/18 somehow.

Of course, Labour / Lib Dem / Green would just hose the money into the Thames so it's a choice between a kick in the goolies or being shot.

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So here I am. Worrying about the state of the pavements in Wandsworth. I think - girls - I should start re-engaging with you. But, once you turn on that switch, there's no turning it off. You have been warned...