WHEN county council elections take place next May, I have no doubt that Labour's prospective councillors will put forward the usual argument that it is important to vote for them because they can co-ordinate policy with their MP.
That's fine as far as it goes but only if they are all singing from the same song sheet.
Labour County Councillors have just queued up to vote for the closure of Greaves Park and Willow nursery schools - the only real opposition seems to have come from Green Party Cllr Jonathan Sear. Yet we are told in last week's Citizen that two Labour city councillors as well as the prospective Labour successor to Hilton Dawson are against the idea.
So what does Labour really think? And if the prospective MP and the city councillors really believe what they say they do, why can't they persuade their colleagues at County Hall to change their minds?
Cllr Jon Barry, Lancaster.
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