EXCLUSIVE: Lib Dem Mayor Proxy Factory Conspiracy?

My oh my Mr Mayor. This one could be hard to square. The place Old Moat Ward. The premises a one-bed apartment. The registered to vote number twelve adults. Nicely proxied up two-by-two with Lib Dem councillors and the like. Including the most recent ex-Mayor Dr David Sandiford.

The Returning Officer is said to be looking into the matter with great interest. I'm sure there will be a more than adequate explanation for this coincidental co-residence and coincidental inability to vote in person. It looks clumsy perhaps but ex-Mayor Sandiford would never ever ever get involved with anything dodgy.

UPDATE: Fri 10:45: There were only the ten absent voters. The other Lib Dem councillors embroiled in this strange scene were Cllr Cameron and Cllr Isherwood. Cllr Cameron incidentally facing a huge win in Burnage ward still thought it useful to run a "Frank Duffy Defects" story in his material. Frank Duffy being a well respected campaigner and former Labour candidate. It was of course another Frank Duffy that defected.