So the leader of the Lib Dems on Brent Council is planning to hold surgeries in a Tube Station. Cllr Paul Lorber will hold a monthly surgery for local residents in the volunteer library at Sudbury Town station on the Piccadilly Line.
I see a challenge coming on.
A few years ago it was extreme ironing which caught our imagination.
Extreme councillor surgeries is now the one to trend. Examples below, please.
* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.
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One Comment
A pedant writes:
I used to live at Ealing Common on the Piccadilly line. It rises from its tunnel between Earls Court and Barons Court and never goes into a tunnel anywhere to the west of that, including Sudbury Town. It’s only ‘underground’ there in the sense that it’s part of the railway system called ‘The Underground’ or in a more limited sense of passing under road bridges.
‘Tube’ is often used as synonyn for ‘Underground’ but that isn’t strictly correct either as it only refers to deep lines as opposed to ‘cut and cover’ lines.
However, the Piccadilly is a ‘Tube’ line, so Mary is correct. The newspaper headline saying ‘underground’ is wrong.