A Labour councillor deemed ‘unfit’ to stand for re-election launched a blistering attack on his local party as he resigned during a town hall meeting. Coun Matt Wynne has been barred from running for Labour at Stockport’s ‘all out’ local elections in May after being rejected by a panel and then losing his appeal.
The furious Edgeley and Cheadle Heath representative last week claimed he had fallen victim to a ‘weaponised’ selection process following a ‘gradual takeover of the local party’s machinery’ by what he called the ‘far left’. And he took the opportunity to go out with a bang at Thursday night’s full council meeting, resigning as a Labour councillor and branding the party ‘not fit for purpose’.
“The whole saga has shown how out of control and out of touch the local party is at present while under the grip of a hard left cult led by the MP for Stockport and his office,” he told councillors. “I still hold Labour values, I always will. I’m a proud working class land and I’m of working class stock.
