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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
The Labour group don't believe in dirty tricks as a way of conducting the council. The public don't like it and it does us absolutely no favours in terms of trying to persuade people that we're doing what's best for the borough.
Not all decisions will be taken at full Council meetings or they'd probably go on for several days at a time but anything which changes the constitution needs to be voted on by all members. Again, any dubious decisions made behind closed doors which look as if they're self-serving will soon be sniffed out by the public (take the Peel Street toilets debacle) so it really isn't in our interests to do such things.
Cuts need to be made and it is likely that not everything is going to go down well with the public but please just bear in mind that much of what we have to do is dictated to by central government and Cllr Britcliffe has just made that immeasurably worse by leaving us with huge bills.
What he would have done if he had retained control is something of a mystery.
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Mmmm ... "sniffed out" and "toilets" in the same sentence
... an unfortunate juxtaposition.
But your last point has crossed my mind too. One can only conclude that he knew he had a snowball in hell's chance of retaining control.