Lib Dem Voice: Chucking Stones at Glass Houses

Lib Dem Voice is actually a rather good source of story leads, like the Lawrence Hill one earlier from Bristol. This one is from Pendle, which is not far from Burnley. But the location is not too important.

A Labour candidate who is also a bus driver appears to be demanding a 20 mph limit on part of a route he drives regularly where one has already existed for four years according to Lib Dem sources. But this small piece of traffic engineering is nothing.

Lib Dem councillor Kenny Dobson - this year’s candidate in the City Centre of Manchester, though he doesn’t get down there much - stood up in Council and demanded an improved crossing at a junction of two roads which NEVER join. Euclid unfortunately ruled that out. They are parallel.

Portland Street and Whitworth Street as I recall.

The Lib Dems did try to kick Kenny out this time as he was alleged to have made unfair allegations about another candidate - over him being involved in various very nefarious activities.

Kenny had in fact been put up to this by senior members of his own party who later turned on him. But he had the last laugh as he "packed" the two-ward meeting with FOUR supporters, enough to see off the leadership's THREE-line-whip.

The nefarious gentleman is surprisingly still a Lib Dem candidate this time. And there’s a fraud convict who's now onto his 5th party affiliation* (approx) standing for them in the adjacent ward.

* Labour, Ind Labour, UKIP, Ind Socialist Labour, Lib Dem

SOCK PUPPET: Make your own Kenny HERE.
UPDATE: Pendle of course, not Burnley. Vital. Thanks Darren. But the action is really in Manchester where a ward councillor is reinventing a gridiron that has been laid out for 150 years.