News is emerging from the highly secretive Knowsley labour party that ex leader Kaiser Jim Keight is on the comeback trail. It is reported that he will contest the St Michael's ward in Huyton next June.

Jim Keight praised in Liverpool Echo

The opening salvo was made in the letters page of the Liverpool Echo 4/ 12/ 03 A writer from Huyton extols the virtues of Keight, saying she gets free bus passes, free parking, and the lowest council tax on Merseyside thanks to Jim and his chums. And also claims QVC in Kirkby is all down to Jim. In fact the letter is so well informed on policies that you could be forgiven for thinking Mr Keight wrote it himself!


And for the record council tax is too high in Knowsley, Sefton Council with double the population of Knowsley has almost identical tax bands. Knowsleys should therefore be at least 40% lower than Sefton. Pigs might fly!

Clearly the pro Knowsley council Liverpool Echo, had no qualms printing the eulogy on their highest circulation day, Thursday, jobs night.

New Labour Sleaze

Whether he will resume his onslaught to sell off Kirkby and wipe it off the map is unclear, he will however continue to victimise anyone who speak up for the Kirkby community. Compare the treatment of some decent councillors in Kirkby to that of some of his sidekicks in Huyton. Ex Cllr Preston, who attacked and robbed a pensioner while he was asleep in bed, was given a 5 year prison sentence. Keight perversely made him a Cabinet Member for Community safety ( paying £12,000 per year). Another crony M.Kearns gave a character reference to a convicted paedophile before he was sent to prison, his reward ? Deputy in charge of Education ! (paying £10,000. per year)

This new labour sleaze, and gutter politics is the reason the council ( probably illegally) has tried to ban the Kirkby Times. We aren't holding our breath waiting for new labours response.