I have to warn Professor  that  there's more than one party can play that game  and if he thinks that it is sensible to run  the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism  on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down  then I think it's unfortunate, it's bad for this council  bad for the people we serve, it does frankly nothing for local government and I can't blame central government if it loses patience  So  I recognise at the end of the day  that erm  Mr  has had troubles with some of his erm  er newcomers  he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group.