I have to commend Mr Ellis for his democratic actions in raising this perversion of democracy, even though there may be an ulterior motive for his actions as he represents the Community Action Party still led I believe by ex Councillor Franzen (aka "the horrible")This party contains some good people albeit somewhat devoid of meaty political beliefs but good at maintaining flower beds, bus shelters and bringing complaints about litter and dog mess to the authorities.
These functions are useful in their own way but are hardly relevant in the larger sphere of things. However I still salute Mr Ellis for his democratic act in writing the letter, unlike his leader ("the horrible") who associates with claw hammer wielding thugs.
I responded as follows.
Dear Mr Bean,
I had not heard about this but I congratulate Mr Ellis on his stand for democracy and the proper use of council facilities and resources.
I understand and am pleased about the Labour group's concern over our progress. They have only themselves to blame for their incompetence and betrayal of the Wigan people.. The Tories and Lib Dems are no better and as we get our message more widely distributed (in spite of the efforts of your paper) our support is increasing exponentially.
In a democratic society ALL views are of equal validity, but for the Labour group to take advantage of their majority to, as Mr Ellis says use facilities, some of which we have contributed to in our council taxes is undemocratic.
If they want to campaign they should pay for it, we pay for ours. After all they have enough foreign millionaires to support their Labour and Tory parties to render the use of council resources unnecessary and indeed theft.
I would advise them to take care as the boot could soon be on the other foot if the new enquiries about our party are anything to go by and the loony Left (and Right)could reap the rewards of their misrule.
Yours sincerely,
For the Labour group on the council to be considering holding special meetings to counter our growth shows how far we have come in only a few years.
The underhand tactics they employ to counter our threat we have become accustomed to, but we must be wary as with a wounded bear they could lash out in unpredictable ways to prevent themselves being anhilated. We know the police and union bosses (not the rank and file members)are using these undemocratic tactics against us as is the Tory sponsored UAF but we are aware of them and believe in all societies the will of the people eventually prevails.
It will be interesting to see if my letter is published and if so, edited.
