Change causes chain reaction

We hear that breakaway Swansea councillor Dodger Roger Smith is continuing to be a right royal pain in the Labour rump. The latest bit of tail-twisting is over his success in persuading boundaries commission chiefs to transfer 600 or so voters to his own patch at the expense of a neighbouring Labour ward. Smith apparently told the commission that the Swansea valley community of Glais had a much closer affinity with Clydach than the erstwhile people’s republic of Llansamlet and they agreed.

Although it is only the boundaries that will change, a further expected review of numbers could well decide that the depleted ward no longer needs four councillors and that possibility has driven one Labour nutcase particularly eccentric member to perform aerial loops with pike. However, we’re informed that his angst is more related to how the reduction would undermine his chances of becoming mayor in a couple of year’s time rather than any concern for voters.