And so Wirral Council’s Cabinet in their infinitesimal wisdom confirmed this week Steve ‘ Vote of no confidence’ Foulkesy’s ascendancy to Wirral’s official first citizen for the forthcoming year. Really? This is the best we have ? They do say we get the public figures we deserve, but this is surely taking the pith ?
Hmmmm….might we suggest there’s at least one person sitting round the table at Cabinet who knowing what they know might live to regret this ringing endorsement.
Of course the Cabinet decision is yet to be ratified by full Council in June – and they do say that a week is a long time in politics so let’s see what the next couple of months brings shall we?…..
Wirralleaks 
This will give the prawn butty market stocks a boost.
Is the trough going at the bottom of the staircase, or, on the carpet?
It’s not May that a meeting of the full Council decide on who’s Mayor (and Deputy Mayor) next year but June. Normally it would be May, but the local elections are held on the 22nd May this year as they are combined with the European elections, hence why the annual meeting of the Council is later than usual. I did email the journalist and the May reference was removed from the article.
Thanks
Methinks he doth ingest too much
of buffets and of free repast
that swinish drink it swells in haste
the plump and roundish estomac
Of what it does to teeming brain
Can be seen in his discourse
of reasons that we oft disdain
but still we fill his bursting purse?