The Brilliant Comrade

I was disappointed that the usually reliable Inside Out Blogsite had got it wrong about the Labour Group defectors. The authors normally seem to know more about what's going on inside the Council than I do. I know that no-one believes me when I deny knowing who writes it – but its true nonetheless.

The councillors who left, left! They were not expelled by the Party. They left the Party, the Party did not leave them. In fact the Labour Party put in much effort locally and nationally to keep them in. During all these discussions they always maintained that they were never going to form another Group, notwithstanding the cynics who believed that this was always the intention for at least one of the defectors. So when the public announcement (typically) came on Kevin John's Sundayline, it was a bit of a non-surprise. I understand that many of their constituency supporters now feel betrayed. Although there were mucho chuckles when it seemed that Pyongyang had come to Clydach when its putative Kim Jong-Il sought to have us believe that he had had to be reluctantly persuaded. Oh yeh – bite yer hand off more like.

The Inside-Outers suggest that one of the reasons for the formalisation was an 'oddball' Council requirement that they had to be in a political group to take their seats. I don't know where they got that from – it simply ain't true. Ray Welsby managed very well on his own, as did Trickie Dickie (for a while at least – until he felt lonely). It probably had more to do with the fact that the Great Leader was comprehensively rebuffed by both the Lib-Dems and the John Hague True Independents (the latter in the most robust language!) when he, allegedly, offered his own fealty in exchange for some bonbon or other fairly closely related, so 'tis said, to a uniformed organisation that meets in Carmarthen. What is causing speculation in the People's Palace by the Sea is how much his two colleagues knew of these machinations.

The stated reasons for the new group was that their communities needed a strong voice and proper representation in the Council Chamber. Er...were they not already the members for these communities? Was the Great Leader's announcement therefore not a criticism of himself. And is there not another member representing his community of Clydach, one rather closely related to him? Did he forget? No doubt, he was reminded when he got home?