My sources told me last week that the
Gateshead Council Labour Group meeting before the council budget meeting was a
great deal more heated than we had first been led to believe. I am reliably
informed that an amendment was proposed that had curious similarities to our
amendment we were putting together down the corridor in our own Lib Dem group
meeting.
Whilst the Leader of the Council, Mick
Henry, was finally able to see off this amendment, he had to pay the price of a
significant concession to those who may be interested in seeing someone else
take on his job were he to fall under the proverbial wheels of the runaway no.
7 bus. Whether or not that same bus will be sent in Mick's direction by those
on the "left" is still to be seen.
Mick's last minute change to the budget
was cobbled together in such a hurry that he hadn't even sorted the wording of
it by the start of the cabinet meeting the next day. He had to give a verbal
explanation, rather than have anything written down. I had never seen Mick
looking so chastened before. I am informed however that this bruising Labour
bust up may be repeated after 22nd May.
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