SOUTHPORT Food & Drink Festival starts tomorrow.
And while some of the area’s top chefs will be creating culinary masterpieces using ingredients such as beef stock, chicken stock and vegetable stock, Sefton’s councillors have come up with a unique recipe of their own - laughing stock.
The council is in chaos today, with no leader, with four Lib Dems having left the cabinet and saying they want no part in the administration, with Labour and the Conservatives refusing to form a coalition and refusing to put forward either a leader, or fill the vacant cabinet posts.
The row happened when Labour and the Tories tried to kick sand in the Lib Dems’ faces - who promptly took their ball home.
All sides have since been busy trying to spin their version of what happened and who was to blame in a bid to squabble their way up to the moral high ground.
Southport is really going places at the moment, exciting new developments springing up all the time, stunning new hotels on the way, great events and making a name with its ‘Classic Resort’ status. The forthcoming Golf Open really will see the eyes of the world on our town.
Politically our schools are among the best in England with Sefton Council officially rated as a four star suthority.
To get there it has taken tremendous hard work from the 8,302 full-time council employees, plus many more part-time, in addition to the 66 councillors who for many years have strived to work together in a hung council. Not an ideal situation, but they have done remarkably well to bring success from a long era of consensus, with politicians across the political spectrum and from areas as diverse as Bootle, Formby, Maghull and Southport working together.
It is time the blame game stopped. It was only a few days ago that local people voted in their thousands to put these politicians in office.
It is time they all remembered that - they need to grow up, start serving the people who put them into office and restore confidence in a council that will oversee the spending of £230,046,313 taxpayers’ cash this year, before the whole affair starts to leave a nasty taste.
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