I may be barking up the wrong tree but I think local Councils have a nasty habit of taking controversial decisions in a way that impacts on the geographic margins.

The examples that come to mind are Bromley Council with the cinema proposal at Crystal Palace, Southwark with their parks for the dead plan for the Honor Oak Rec and now Lewisham with its plans for HL.

Meanwhile, across town, one of the comments made in relation to local government corruption in Tower Hamlets was a suggestion that boroughs dominated by one party were more vulnerable to corruption. Proportional representation was touted as an antidote.

Back in the Democratic People's Republic of Lewisham....