DON'T tell me that these six councillors didn't have this planned months ago.

They should be ashamed at letting people vote for them as members of Labour and then changing straight away. If the Conservatives and LibDems get into bed with them they will only have themselves to blame.

I have lived in Blackburn for over 50 years and it is only in the last five that anyone seems to have cared less about the way the town looks.

Bill Taylor may have been happy to soak up publicity but in the last five years the council has done more than it did before.

I don't reckon any of the Conservatives or Lib-Dems or the independents care less about how they do it. All they want is to be in charge and get into positions of power, no matter how they do it.

It will be interesting to see if Paul Browne manages to persuade his new friends in the Independents to let him spend all the money in Darwen that he's been talking about over the last 10 years.

I doubt that very much and I bet Colin Rigby's flock over in Egworth will be really chuffed that he has joined with six former Labour members . . .

LAURA BRIGGS (by e-mail)