[Margaret Pilkington]

Had Malcolm Pritchard stood an an Independent candidate(which he could have done) he would have been being honest about his political allegiance......but to my mind, he knew that standing as an Independent would not allow him to gain from the recent publicity that the UKIP party has had. He wanted to use this in an opportunistic way to gain......and that is dishonest, both to the UKIP party and to those who elected him on a UKIP ticket.

Still, dishonesty is the common coin of politicians. I just thought(and maybe hoped) that our local politicians had not been tainted by this blight.