A few days ago I entered into a discussion with him online about the issue. He has since deleted the tweets. But, as we know, the Internet has a long memory - so here they are. I've reordered a few to make our conversation clearer. None of my tweets have been deleted.

It started when I saw him talking about Lords reform.

<https://twitter.com/CllrCarlThomson/status/224956920946110464>

As far as I am aware, local councillors have very little impact on the subject. Of greater concern to this resident is the religious discrimination promoted by him and the Tory council. I asked about it, and got a very curt reply.

Suddenly, Carl sent this rather passive aggressive tweet. (NB due to GMT/BST this next tweet was sent 15 minutes after the previous one.)

https://twitter.com/CllrCarlThomson/status/224968730021593089

I couldn't see anyone accusing him of corruption, certainly not me. I can't even imagine why he bought it up.

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@CllrCarlThomson I don't think you're corrupt. But shouldn't elected officials try to reflect to wishes of their constituents?

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@CllrCarlThomson but what I don't get: majority of churchgoers said reintroduced fees wouldn't stop them attending. So who do you represent?

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@CllrCarlThomson it would be a pretty daft form of corruption if you *were* taking advantage of free church parking. Tens of £ per year! :-)

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@CllrCarlThomson no car? The perfect crime ;-)

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And that's the sum of it. It baffles me why he has deleted the tweets. Sure, he was slightly rude to start with - but given the late hour it's not the worst of crimes. I'm no Paxman, so I can't imagine my questions taxed him - although, like Paxo, I never received an adequate reply.

In the meantime, Woking continues pouring away money to religious groups who neither need nor want subsidising. But that's a subject for another blog post...