Gingernuts, I'm afraid it's childish to complain about Sydenham getting money for street upkeep. Is everything else everywhere else to go on hold until we get our (architecturally stunning, dead cheap, not at all cross-financed without an increase in council tax) pool? Schools? Roads? Housing regeneration? Stuff that, what about our pool? I'd like to see you go to Deptford and explain why a pool five miles away has to be Lewisham's only priority.

And deposing the Jacqui Smith situation into the argument is a bit ridiculous, really. I'm guessing she submitted the bill because it's what she does month in month out with a perfectly legitimate expense (just like I do for my multichannel TV with my employer, because I too need 24-hour news in order to do my job properly) and clearly had no idea there was a clearly perfectly illegitimate expense that she hadn't used herself, and had no reason to suspect on it. It's not as if it said RUDE PORN MOVIES THAT YOUR HUSBAND HAS BEEN WATCHING 2@4.99. Quite what relevance it has to our pool (other than the fact that you seem to want every other form of public expenditure to stop until it gets built) I've no idea.