Only Labour Can EVER Lead Torfaen!

Well that is what senior members of the labour party think, by definition. No-one else has the experience to form a leading group. So in spite of a poor show at the polls, for the labour party and himself, leader Bob Wellington has justified his "arrangement" of eventually finding 5 former sworn enemies to support his next year in a very well paid office to bring "stability to local governance in Torfaen" See Argus report here dated Tuesday 27th May 2008

"But council leader Bob Wellington said the "arrangement" would bring stability to local governance in Torfaen.

Senior Labour councillor John Cunningham, cabinet member for operational services, called the independent coalition members "hypocritical" for joining with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

He said the five Cwmbran councillors would not necessarily support Labour, who he said were the most experienced party and the best placed to run Torfaen council."

So no-one but the labour party is experienced enough to run Torfaen, AND no-one but the labour party members will get any position that would allow them to gain any experience (yet every labour member, clever or dim, old, young or inexperienced gets some position of responsibility.) very clever, a bit of a catch 22 situation if ever there was one.

Add to that the opinion that Independents were hypocritical to even think of a coalition with Conservatives and Liberals (they don't mention that that would have been under the leadership of independents) yet it was in the public interest for the labour party to tout round with a chequebook for literally anyone to support their continuation in office and you can see what sort of mugabe-istic thinking is behind stable governance in Torfaen. How badly would labour have had to have done in the polls for them to begin to even think that they should at least share power?