[Wynonie Harris]

I'm not asking you your views on national issues as a prospective councillor, I'm asking you as a member of Accyweb and an ordinary rank-and-file member of the Labour party. One of the reasons I was asking was that I've read reports that many other grassroots party members seem unhappy with the bill, although you obviously don't share their misgivings.

As for bringing the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill "into the equation" on the subject of Community Wardens, who's doing that? They are completely separate issues a million miles apart and people have the sense to realise that!

Have the New Labour spin doctors issued some sort of diktat that all prospective councillors must not express any opinions, apart from those concerned with local council matters? It certainly seems that way!