jgd,
I'll respond to the point on planning issues via a separate thread, as far as I know it was only the thread on the fire station that you have commented on. But the planning system does require an 'approve' or 'object' to any application, and each application must be judged on its own merits, not what could be in a future application or amended version of the application on the table. That is just the adversarial nature of the system and an early objection often results in changes that make a development more acceptable and effectively neutralise the objections.

Focus on anti-Tory threads - take a look at the threads started by Ex FH Pat:
Trust a Tory - having a bubble
June 2010 budget - a deliberately provocative faux-right-wing rant
More Lies
And of course this thread.

Anybody has the right to start whatever threads they like, but when they are deliberately misrepresenting who they are, and creating personas with extreme opinions, that is a slightly different matter. I never deemed this as 'unacceptable and abhorrent', but the circumstances made it noteworthy. You are welcome to consider it un-noteworthy or to disagree with anything I say, without misrepresenting what I am saying.