Up to the hilt

An excellent book, now sadly out of print, is the Backstabbers Guide – a sort of lighthearted version of Machiavelli’s “The Prince” which provides the reader with readily transferable skill sets in deceit, self-promotion and betrayal.

But it’s doubtful anything approaching an informed strategy was behind the decision of the tory group on Swansea Council to issue a hugely damaging statement as to why they recently dumped their leader. A more likely factor is that they’re totally and collectively out of their gourds.

While it's not entirely unheard of for bruised egos to overcome good judgement in politics, its takes a special kind of gob-smacking insanity to actually publish the text of a no-confidence motion.

If claiming that RK was always headed of the exit is an attempt at vindication then it sucks. If the idea was to somehow re-position the Conservative group then all the conspirators have succeeded in doing is to place their party in the ‘at risk of possible self-harm’ category. Every opposing candidate seeking to unseat tories in Mayals - and elsewhere - has had their election material virtually written for them.

Nice going, guys.