[Tealeaf]

The more I read of this act of perfidious folly the more I am appalled. Is this to become Accy's Iraq? Is the council about to pursue a policy, against huge public opposition, involving large expenditure of resources, ignoring far greater priorities, with little opposition or debate, on the basis of false or suspect documentation, such as the dossier dated 9th May, as quoted above yesterday by Councillor Jones.

Unfortunatly, today is 9th May.

What is going on here? Could someone please expain on what basis local political debate was suspended for the duration of the election campaign? We elect councillors to do their job as councillors, not to go hanging on the the coat tails of their two-bit parliamentary candidate as they do their once-every-four-years rounds. Not that it has been resumed, we are suddenly finding that "Over-my-dead-body" Britcliffe and his mob have turned and this loonatic scheme is going ahead. What has been going on behind closed doors? What have we not been told?

It looks like the people of Hyndburn are about to get a first-degree stitch up.