Events, dear boy

For a number of readers, the most remarkable thing about the alternative budget put forward by Swansea Labour leader David Phillips was its comparative brevity. He scored some palpable hits but it is not as though he was presented with a difficult target in the first place. Nevertheless, his accusations of financial incompetence obviously stung Lib Dem Defensor Incrediblis Peter Black who takes 1,630 words on Freedom Central to counter what DP had to say in just over 600.

Clearly niggled as much at the unusually critical press coverage his Lib Dem administration is getting as by opposition taunts, Black’s response is overly detailed and a bit muddled as result. There is even a hint of desperation in the manner in which the tired old chestnuts are offered up of how the bendy bus really was a Labour scheme all along and that there were no development plans for the former leisure centre.

As for a little local difficulty, the current betting is that the Lib Dem leadership is facing a revolt within coalition ranks and that a climbdown on controversial plans to close the tennis centre can be expected at Monday’s budget meeting.