Jumping back to the original point of the thread - both Labour councillors now kicked out of the Labour Party. If only the Tories were as quick to kick out racists.
It's an unwritten rule prospective and elected councillors have to do this. After all, the other Tory halfwit that used to post here did exactly the same.
Indeed. Party politics has no place in local government. Every candidate should be independent of a political party. In the dim and distant past I've had letters in the Argus suggesting such a move but of course, nothings happened. Instead we get councillors like Steve Foster and almost, but...
On the Argus comments section during the run up to the last local election he posted as Steve Foster with loads of pro Tory crap. When challenged as to why he didn't post as his real name as he was standing for election his reason was "This is the name I signed up as" - he was clearly too stupid...