"Brian Watson" wrote ...
Can I make it clear that this was no power-hungry grab. It was a (totally
screwed up admittedly) attempt to deal with a problem that constituents
have complained about vehemently and repeatedly for many years.
I would never have met the ambulance driver if a constituent hadn't rung
me up and told me that the gate had been broken open. If he had correctly
reported that the gate had been left open by someone entitled to open it
I
wouldn't even have gone to look. I'd just have called the council
officers
and left them to it. That was where things went wrong and I lost it in
frustration for the failure of people to do their jobs as promised.
I'd say (as someone who doesn't actually live in the city and has no
political or personal beef with Colin) that that looks like a perfectly
reasonable statement about why he was there and why he did what he did.
He got it wrong, but was not fully-acquainted with the facts. It doesn't
excuse it but it explains it.
I am certainly not in a position to cast the first stone, having got
things wrong myself on several occasions and acted badly in consequence.
Everyone else here (especially those lining up to have a pop at him) so
damn spotless?

Of course I'm not spotless, but we're not talking about me, and I'm not his
agent.

You've missed the point that this was an AMBULANCE - and by some strange
coincidence, so does his 'explanation'.

Plus your friend's action broke the law.

Strange that those were the only relevant facts, yet you and your pal have
ignored them.
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Andrew