LEANING over the dashboard of his car, David McLeod, a Labour councillor for Harwich, a coastal town in Essex, points to a patch of tarmac gently sagging in the middle of the road: “See that?” he says. “A classic pothole.” At the local bus station, the manager complains that four vehicles have suffered broken springs in a single month. And Harwich is not the only British town scrutinising its roads. Potholes have become a widespread gripe, and a political obsession…. READ MORE