IT'S hard to believe that it's nearly four years since the Advertiser's hugely popular and successful Out of Lancs, No Thanks campaign.
You may remember it was launched to protest against the Boundary Committee's pathetic attempt to realign local political boundaries, with one of the options being to split Ormskirk down the middle, taking everything on the western part into Sefton and the eastern part into Wigan.
Looking at recent news from those two authorities I'm glad we managed to get the idea scrapped.
In Sefton at the moment, there's a wholly unedifying row going, so much so you could write a book on it.
The 'highlights' are as follows:
- Chief exec Graham Haywood decides to quit after apparently being forced out
- Deputy chief exec, Alan Moore, suspended over alleged misconduct
- Debi Jones, a Tory councillor and prospective parliamentary candidate for Sefton Central (the old Crosby seat) is reported to the Standards Board as part of the above probe
- Oh yes, and an ex-Mayor, John Walker, is facing jailed for benefits fraud.
Over, in Wigan it's come to light that the authority's councillors are the worst for infighting in the country, having topped a Standards Board league table.
You'd expect that both Wigan and Sefton are run by toddlers but, in fact, I can exclusively reveal that they are adults (well, over 18 at any rate).
The words 'lucky' and 'escape' spring to mind....
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