Ignoring Democracy

Last week's story on how Swansea Labour snubbed Councillor Richard Lewis has gathered steam. In today's full page spread in the Evening Post,

Swansea Labour leader David Phillips confirms that his group have no respect for democracy:  "My group did not reject Councillor Lewis because he wouldn't be Labour's poodle, my group rejected him because he clearly wasn't the right man for the job."


This is the man who said at the same meeting that he wanted to operate an open regime.


Richard Lewis won a democratic vote in his own party. The Swansea Labour leader had no right to undermine it. 


It is hoped that this worrying behaviour and attitude from Labour is not a taste of things to come for the city at large.