8:40am Wednesday 5th August 2009
I cannot help feeling that the current spat in Wirral Borough Council between the Labour Party and Conservative councillor Dennis Knowles (ex- Labour member for Seacombe Ward) is all rather juvenile.
I was present at Wallasey Town Hall when Cllr Knowles is alleged to have made the “cut-throat gesture” towards his former Labour colleagues.
Councillor Knowles, who denies the gesture, suggests in fact that he was drawing his finger across his mouth in an attempt to silence vocal criticism from the benches opposite.
It strikes me that the Standards Board for England should have better things to do than adjudicating on an issue which may result in measure-ment being taken of the distance between a councillor’s mouth and his chin.
Surely in the aftermath of the notorious libraries affair and with the advent of further recession induced reduction in government funding to local authorities the leader of the council would be better engaged in attending to affairs of state instead of petty bickering over party defections.
Cllr David Kirwan, Prospective Independent MP for Wirral West.
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