Two Labour Councillors resigned from their group on Swansea Council last night and have announced their intention to sit as non-aligned members. At the same time tensions within the Labour Group surfaced during the Council meeting with the opposition leader at one point interrupting his speech to bellow the words ‘shut up’ at his own backbenchers.
The South Wales Evening Post points out that thirteen years ago 57 of the 72 Councillors on the newly formed City and County of Swansea represented the Labour Party. Today that number has fallen to 28. They say that ‘Labour have often poked fun at the ruling coalition for being a ‘rag-bag of Lib Dems, Tories and Independents, but it is looking a lot more united than the opposition at the moment.’
Perhaps the strain of being out of power for an unprecedented second term in Swansea is starting to show on the Labour Party. Things could get ugly when they fail to hold onto Swansea West at successive General and Assembly elections.e
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