Mark Pack

The Gang of Four ride again…

By | Thu 10th April 2008 - 7:48 pm

… but this time, it’s four ex-Labour councillors up against the Labour Party in Northumberland.

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  • Cllr Neil Bradbury 10th Apr '08 - 10:13pm

    Jonathans article is too nice to Labour – there’s at least one more Labour candidate standing against his party – Labour councillor Bill Garrett is standing as an independent against tha labour candidate. His wife, also a Labour coucnillor, signed his papers as did a Tory councillor!

    Even funnier is the behaviour of the Tories in Northumberland. Four in the wets of teh county are standing as independents against their own party after not being selected by the Tories. One is the tory LEADER of Tynedlae District council, the only Tory controlled council in the NE!!! In the latest edition of our local paper (not yet on the net) he says he hopes he can remain as Tory leader of the district council after the elections. In addition Labour councillors who have not been selected want compensation!

    http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=822996

    http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2008/04/07/independent-stance-as-party-lines-abandoned-61634-20728032/

    http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2008/04/08/outrage-at-move-for-compensation-61634-20732611/

  • Cllr Neil Bradbury 10th Apr '08 - 10:14pm

    sorry seem to have lost the ability to spell!

  • Cllr Neil Bradbury 15th Apr '08 - 12:09pm

    Mr Tynedale truth, whoever you are. You are right in one out of two points you make.

    It appears I was wrongly informed. Having checked the council website Independent candidate (and former labour councillor stalwart) Bill Garretts papers were not signed by his Labour councillor wife but they definitely were signed by Cllr Andy Gill, conservative councillor for Prudhoe. Sorry for the confusion! I wonder how Cllr Lorna Garrett will be voting at the election?

    However, I am right that Cllr Walton is the leader of Tynedale Council and wishes to remain so. The Hexham Courant reports that “Coun. Walton said at this stage he was hopeful of being re-elected [as leader] at the council’s annual meeting in May”.

    Hardly deflects from the point that the Tories and Labour are in a dog fight in many of their held wards against independents who are long standing former members of their own party.

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