Another extraordinarily candid interview with Warren Bradley

Say what you like about the man, Councillor Warren Bradley can be jawdroppingly candid, open and frank at times.

You may remember that following the June 2009 European Election, Warren told us that many of his LibDem colleagues were complacent and took the electorate for granted.

Then in the run up to the General Election he told us how the LibDems had ripped out the heart of our communities with the Council's HMRI programme.

Today I read in the Daily Post that he has said the LibDems face wipeout in the North of England "We’re in a weak coalition, that will deliver nothing to the Lib-Dems except total electoral decimation." I think he is probably right.

I asked in an earlier entry this week what he would be thinking as BSF is scrapped in Liverpool, and this is what he told the paper, “It’s ridiculous, the plans for BSF were so far advanced and it’s unforgivable that other funding options are not in place. I honestly felt physically sick.”

I think that was a very brave thing to say, well done Warren, sometimes you simply cannot defend the indefensible. Good on you.

Interestingly he also says that some of his colleagues on the LibDem benches are considering their positions, I wonder if that will mean defections to Steve Radford's Party, or to the Greens, or whether we would welcome any of the more sensible members ourselves, or could we see a slew of Independents?

Fascinating times...