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Originally Posted by Gayle
Or looking at it from another angle - you have an opposition party that knows that they can block everything that the controlling group want to put through, simply because no one has an overall majority.
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Technically we don't.
The balance is 17-17 if you want to lump the Independent councillors in with Labour, but we have no control over how they vote, however likely it may seem that they would support us.
He may lose the by-election in Baxenden, so what then? Postpone all full Council meetings until after 7th May 2011?
There was a Cabinet meeting today and the one thing that the public all said was that Cllr Britcliffe's way of conducting things was dictatorial.