Taking Wigan Council back to court for mis use of powers

A number of you will have heard that yet again Wigan Council has brought illegal sanctions and misused their powers this last week. This is because a Labour candidate Gina Merrett, who stood for Hindley Green Ward unsuccessfully, claimed that Cllr Bob Brierley broke the law by sending a leaflet out with the independent Candidate Paul Maiden to support him over the Labour Candidate.

It is clear as day that Labour and this woman are spitting their dummy out. First they ran to the police – who said that they are not getting involved as he hadn’t done anything wrong. The Labour Candidate then ran to the Electoral Commission claiming foul play. Yet again they told her to sling her hook. She must have thought where do I turn now? I know let’s get the Labour control Council investigate him for a breach of code of conduct.

For many this means nothing. In a nutshell it means when Bob Brierley sent this letter to support the independents candidate was he acting in his official capacity as a Cllr or as a Private citizen? Anyone with one ounce of sense knows that he was doing it as a Cllr. There are a number if cases that have proven things like this are in fact being done as a private person, including the Former London Mayor, Ken Livingstone who made a nazi slur to a reporter and he was going to be banned for 3 moths from public office. He took the then standards board of England to the high court and won easily.

I am not a big fan of Bob Brierley, in fact I am not a fan of his in any ways but I despise the fact that Labour are using mine and your tax payers money for political slurs on opposition Cllrs they don’t like. Over a million quid so far with all these slurs. Add that on to the half a million quid for the attempt at trying to meddle with democracy by trying to illegally sack Steve Jones. Enough is enough!

So with that I, along with others are going to form a new group that will take Wigan Council back to the high court and ask for a judicial review and ask if the Council has over stepped it’s power. We believe it is easily evident that it has.

First, we have already written to Wigan Council legal dept to put them on notice and ask them to sort this mess out and if they don’t we will not hesitate to go to the high court.

Should you want to get involved with the new group let us know. There is an email address at the side of the blog to email me. It is one thing to have political differences but it is another to bully, intimidate and misuse powers for their own political end.