Councillors aren’t always at each other’s throats

“I have ‘failed to understand a social movement that values equality and diversity of voice’. Apparently, this movement does not extend to tolerating my own diverse voice” - TV’s Piers Morgan who has withdrawn from hosting the Royal Television Society’s Programme Awards ceremony because of a “silly” campaign to protest his appointment “If a man is a perfectionist he is seen as commanding; in a woman it is deemed demanding. He is assertive; she is a pain. It is not a level playing field” IT may seem that councillors are at each other’s throats all the time. Sometimes, however, things that councillors from different political parties do together, for the public good, get overlooked.

Take the Huddersfield District Committee for example. Under the chairmanship of Labour’s Sheikh Ullah and with a majority of Labour councillors, this week the committee voted to help the Lepton scouts with a grant of over £8,000 to repair the damaged floor of their scout hut.

I helped the scout group put together their initial bid. I did this as their councillor, not as a Conservative. With the support of my fellow Labour and Liberal councillors in Almondbury the Lepton group were able to present their case at the District Committee meeting and win the backing for their grant.

This sort of co-operation should be highlighted more. There is going to be political grumblings from time to time between political parties. That, unfortunately, is the nature of politics. Personal differences should be frowned upon as we do need to act together for the public good. minister, now preaches what could be interpreted as anarchy as he asks people to “rise up” and seek to overturn the democratic result of the referendum last year.

He then goes on to insult the intelligence of the British people by saying the electorate were not aware of the consequences of a vote to leave the EU.

Here is a man who deceived this country into going to the disastrous war in Iraq without knowing the consequences for that country; of wanting the UK to join the Euro without knowing the consequences such an act of reckless folly would have had on our economy; of opening the door to mass immigration without knowing the consequences it would have on our schools, doctor’s surgeries, NHS, housing, public services and employment