Noises from the cheap seats

They say that the loudest noises emanate from the emptiest of vessels and as if to prove the point, Councillor Ioan Richard (known as the Mawr Mouth of Swansea) uses up valuable Council Committee time to indulge in an attack on yours truly.

Quite what Ioan Richard's fascination is with me, I do not know, but perhaps I ought to start investing in the type of personal safety devices usually reserved for the homes of Cabinet Members, judges and senior police officers?

It is odd that it has yet to dawn on Cllr Richard and his chums in the LibDem-led coalition of political misfits that every time they make some silly little, childish, petty attack on me, I get a nice chance for a juicy story in the local, or sometimes national, media. Long my this ignorance continue! (Even by pointing this glaringly obvious fact out in this blog will not make the penny drop...their fixation with me will overcome any dim spark of rational thought they might harbour.)

My advice to Ioan Richard is to go back to Mawr and reflect on why it is that he only uses his rare interventions in Council Meetings to harangue others and to indulge in procedural tricks, along with other troublesome members. such as moving the guillotine motion (to end a debate) when Opposition Councillors are trying to hold the ruling group to account.

In the meantime, I have to say it's pretty clear that I take up a great deal more space in Cllr Richard's head than he does in mine!