To a man and woman, the Wirral Tories, Greens, Lib Dems, Reform, a Your Party and an Independent will NOT be using the democratic processes available to them to request that Council leader Paula Basnett makes a public statement. Neither will the local MPs be doing their jobs and having the Local Enterprise Partnership investigated. I’ve made these solid assumptions because I emailed all 66 of them a full week ago – and the three MPs – but to no avail. No-one responded.
Are they compromised?
Are they frightened?
Are they incompetent?
Are they suffering from deeply misplaced loyalty?
Are they determined not to represent us?
Are they feeling exposed because some meddlesome oik is interfering?
Or are they just lazy?
Who knows? Whatever the answer is, the heat is now being turned up. This issue may be well be forced into the public realm on a local AND national basis soon.
We shall see.
Meanwhile, in the meantime, I used the excellent British Newspaper Archive to do a spot of targeted trawling through North West newspapers and came up with a ten-year span of old crime stories:
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Return to Bomb Alley 1982 – The Falklands Deception, by Paul Cardin
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Wirral In It Together 