Are constituents or colleagues upset by this?

Published: 16 April, 2010

• I AM unusually intrigued by the West End Extra Diary, (Just get on with it – as Ian might have said, April 9).
It related how Councillor Frixos Tombolis, hopeful candidate for the Tory wedge in Westminster, refused to stand by his Labour candidate in a photo opportunity for fear of “upsetting his colleagues”.
Setting aside the juvenile playground tantrums, all to plain to see, this is how it appears that local politics work.
Cllr Tombolis won’t vote for anything that “upsets his colleagues,” but what about representing constituents?
In the last year there has been overwhelming opposition from residents to the introduction of the motorcycle “tax” that loses Westminster £400,000 a year.
Residents’ associations have implored the Tories to scrap it.
Cllr Tombolis voted with his fellow Tories. Now we know why. He was afraid of upsetting his colleagues!
I would be happy to meet Frixos at a public discussion so he can explain why he votes for his friends rather than his constituents.
TREVOR LANGFORD, Address supplied