[Stanleyguy]

For God's sake, isn't it time some people got a life?

The most important football match for many years between two local sides has been arranged at short notice. There is significant local interest in the borough, and if the councillors are really representative of the community, there will be significant local interest among councillors.

The Council meeting is to discuss the setting of the Council Tax for next year, and by law it doesn't have to be set before 15th March. So whether it is set on 1st or 2nd March is totally irrelevant.

So what better arrangement than to put the Council meeting back 24 hours? If the Council can't be flexible enough to do that, then it has really been swallowed up in its own sense of self importance.

Thousands of pounds in re-printing? Don't be stupid. A few flyers to tell people the Clayton Area Council meeting has been put back a week. Say £10 - £20? How many people go to the Clayton Area Council meeting anyway? The last one I went to there were about 20, most of whom were the usual sad people who have nothing better in their lives to do, who turn up to everything whatever time of the day or night you have the meeting.

These people are using this to have yet another swipe at the Council, and I think the Council are right to ignore them.