RE, Former Blackburn Labour mayor defects to UKIP

From time to time some councillors and former councillors switch party. At least seven of the current 64 councillors on Blackburn with Darwen Council have represented another party or been Independents in the past.

Whenever a councillor moves from one party to another, the receiving party always presents this as an earth shattering event, symbolic of the shape of things to come. And normally, the switch is forgotten by most people in a short space of time. It’s just the froth of politics.

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