We hear talk that a sizeable chunk of the Labour group on Swansea Council will be standing down at the next election.
The latest count is that up to a quarter of their number could be about to hang up their boots. Whether this mass exit is related to recent reports of a serious bust-up between local party officials is unclear. A commonly heard theme however is that a certain English “incomer” has seriously disrupted their turgid fraternal proceedings once too often.
Trotskyist insurgencies aside, our e-mail source maintains that Labour in Swansea still has a serious ‘top-down problem' (a phrase which earns the euphemism of the week award) and that the only outcome of the rumoured exodus would be a likely drop in the average age by nearly two decades and not much else. Ouch.
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Strangley enough, even I, in a remote Snowdonia village, have heard similar rumours, but not from within the Labour Party.
The name I won't mention but the person identified lives, shall we say, on the norther peripheries of our great city.
I believe your figures are exaggerated. Though you are right that this disruption is down to Labour party OFFICIALS – not COUNCILLORS.
The unrest is down to two English incomers – one former MP and a Lib Dem sympathiser, former Dunvant Community Councillor, whose has a record of being economic with the truth and that is one of her BEST qualities.
I understand that there were two resignations on the night. Out of loyalty, one offered to stay on until a replacement could be found, an offer which recieved massive applause from the grateful membership. The other person who resigned had "cried wolf" so many times before he simply "trotskied" off into the political wilderness.
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