Winsford Salt of the Earth

Well, we're not quite sure how it happened, if we're honest.

Cllr Ernie Welch is the Landlord of a local pub, so naturally he was in a position to persuade people that Cllrs Mandy Clare and Simon Boone are actually human beings. The rest of us are Directors¹⁾ of the fledgling Motorcycle Club "Ride to Raise", or were just bored at the time. Judging by the rosy-cheeked faces on our Flyer, possibly drunk as well.

Of course, something as complex as forming a not-political, er, political party is never so simple, and since then we have had some “teething problems”, such as the twin failures of Simon Boone to get elected for WTC and of Claire Broughton to be elected for CWAC, followed by the near-immediate resignation of Cllr Chrissy Smith²⁾…

A month or so later, those of us who aren't famous notorious locally, decided we'd had enough of “Cllr Mandy Boone” pushing us around, so we expelled them from their (our) Party.

Unfortunately, Cllrs Mandy and Simon didn't like being thrown out of their own treehouse, so now, much like my pet dog wearing a cone after a trip to the vets, we (they) all have to share this website, as a mark of our (their) shame.

Around this time, being a bit embarrassed by his lack of support locally, Simon Boone³⁾ announced he would be having a do-over at the local by-election, in an attempt to reclaim the seat that we, I mean they, had lost due to Cllr Chrissy Duffy's resignation from them, I mean us.

Of course, not to be outdone, having announced our (I mean their) candidate, they (I mean we) announced that we (they) would be fielding Dave Edwards as their candidate.

As a compromise, we decided to not work together, and therefore field both Simon Boone AND Dave Edwards on the ballot, come Thursday the 5th Oct, 2023, a bold move we expect will surely win us the unconfused approval of the people.

(Un)fortunately Cllr Martin Beveridge quit WSotE (CWAC)⁴⁾ but not WSotE (WTC) because being an unaligned independent is, frankly, a better look.

We wish them well, and hope they do and don't lose in the by-election.

Our mission is to be the most confusing local party, with our grass roots campaign aiming to put “People before politics”, whilst simultaneously making wild claims and promises to deliver anything we can think of, even if it isn't within our gift.

Hopefully, no-one will notice that nothing actually happens, other than some tight-ass laptops getting purchased for us to play games on.

We don't have one. Really!

We decided, as a matter of extreme importance, that we had to stop having actual Council meetings very early on in our hostile takeover of the Town Council. So we didn't!

Unfortunately, this would have meant that we couldn't approve the purchase of our tight-ass laptops, so we decided that actually, it IS very important to have Council meetings, just only as few as we can get away with in order to approve the purchase of tight-ass laptops.

You wouldn't want us to waste (y)our money on holding meetings to openly discuss public business! We do all that in secret, on our own time, so that you don't have to follow our tedious proceedings.

You're welcome!

The WSotE “Team”