no i am grateful to mr  because he's finally crystallised in my mind something that's been bugging me  the longer i stay on this council  about exactly what the tories see their role here  as  and it's now very clear to me, more than ever  and that is that if you want to be obstructive  and negative  and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the tory strategy.