Regional power.

Well see this image of your post that very much shows you did post 'Ours do'

  now he's denying that he pretended he didn't post 'Ours do'

Now click and weep Bentley as you very much did  ukpoliticsdebate.boards.net/post/32310/thread

Want an image of that too Bentley?  

Top tip:  if you're going to stalk me remember that I don't put up with fuckwitted lies

I laughed earlier when he got trolled back. 

So seems you do need the image to show what a shabby liar you are.

One small point I would raise in regard to the above

A few years ago the Labour Council spent £90 million building a new retail centre in town which they then set about destroying the footfall in other areas of town to promote. One such measure was closing a main shopping street away from their new cash cow to buses. A large number of traders and pub and club owners near that street all lived in one ward and two of their councillors, both labour, first voted and spoke vociferously against these measures that were clearly designed to disadvantage his constituents.

As a result one of these people walked from the party, calling himself an independent and acting as such. He stood as an independent at the election the next year and won the first seat in the ward by a huge margin. The other forcibly ejected from the party came second by a similar amount.

Two others one a chap that used to be my councillor and now my daughter’s and a second a ward colleague also got ejected from the labour group and similarly stood as independents. In their case they objected to the breaking of rules by yhe then labour leader now in the lords who violated process to keep her pal on the payroll in spite of his failure to turn up for meetings.

I set all of that down as background so you can see the degree to which labour in Newport ride roughshod over things

But they went too far with their next move

As I am sure you know, committees etc are supposed to have representation across the elected spectrum. By not being part of a ‘recognised group’ the independent councillors were denied access to representation on those committees

And then the anti democratic bitch signed her own death warrant by extending those powers in a closed meeting to deny access to the floor at plenary meetings to any not part of a group.

I say sign her own death warrant because under the PPERA (political parties elections and referenda act) 2000 the new construct of a local political party was created. All the independent councillors agreed to form and join the Newport Indendent Councillors Party whose pretty much sole aim on the articles of association define it as a party meeting the definition of a local party under the PPERA formed for the specific purpose of affording independent councillors elected to Newport Council a formal group to join in order to have their voice heard in council under new measures imposed by the Labour Chair.

With that party in place their votes counted and they threw the bitch off the top seat. Rather than have her totalitarian stance exposed the party told her to take the offered peerage and fuck off.

My point is sometimes there are reasons for an independent to join a group.

I presume the sort of thing you refer to is that which took place in Cwmbran up the road.

After an almighty row with residents several labour councillors found their arses in the gutter and their seats taken by independents. The next year saw several labour hacks throw in their rosettes and stand as independents but within six months all of them had ‘joined’ the labour group or voted with them. Labour in all but name. At the next election none were re elected

The leader of my council's independant group was a local estate agent along with her partner; previously she was leader of the Labour group and prior to that was a commie. They let a house on behalf of a guy who I knew because I had looked at the house with a view to buy.

The owner, wife and kids moved abroad but the guy returned quite suddenly; I think someone may have warned him about how his house was being used. The tenanat who movedf in then sublet it into rooms and the owner took the estate agent to court for breaching the conditions of let. I went to court and was the only spectator. I sat where the convict could see me and I could see him but after some ten minutes he had a short exchange with his brief who then asked the bench whether his client could move (obviously to where I couldn't see him). The case came to a close and the three solicitors representing the owner were discussing which way the verdict would go. They were sitting just in front of me so I said, "Guilty". They turned round and asked why I was so sure so I explained my knowledge of the case. "Do you have an interest" one asked, "Yes" I said, "I've come to watch him squirm". When the verdict came, the fine and costs came to just over a a thousand pounds and the cheeky bugger asked for time to pay because he was a retired pensioner; he retired when he found out he was about to be prosecuted.