James Hamblin was the Parliamentary Candidate in Cardiff West in the 2024 General Election. He has since stood in a Cardiff Council by-election. “If this was a posh area, the council would have sorted it already. But because it’s Clive Street, we’re ignored.” That was what one resident told me on the doorstep in Clive Street, in Cardiff, on the day of the by-election. They have spent years pleading with Labour-run Cardiff Council to tackle the problem of the overgrown trees that line their street.