An extraordinary war of words between Bury’s longest serving councillor and former Conservative Party colleagues has included accusations of bullying from both sides.
The furious row, between independent councillor Yvonne Wright, who has been on the council for 17 years, her ward colleague for Tottington Luis McBriar and the wider Conservative group leadership comes as Coun Wright narrowly avoided being barred from the council after not attending any meetings for almost six months between May and this month.
That situation was averted when she was appointed to a committee which enabled her not to fall foul of the ‘six month’ non-attendance rule which is enshrined in law and means any councillor who does not attend is removed from the authority. Coun Wright, who left the Tory group in February and later topped the poll as an independent for the Tottington ward in May’s elections, has accused Bury Conservatives of a ‘desperate and continuing, nasty witch-hunt to assassinate my character and bully me’.
