With due aplomb, Liverpool City Councils planning committee have rubber stamped the hand over of Stanley Park to Liverpool FC, and their corporate friends. Although he has no vote on the matter, the whole scheme was masterminded by Chief Executive Henshaw in exactly the same manner as the Liverpool Academy was in Kirkby. The hard sell, the inducement of development that could only go ahead if the new stadium is built, and the deliberate run down of the park paving the way for disposal.

These tactics are well known to Kirkby, who like the people of Anfield were promised community facilities, jobs, and investment by the Club and Council, which seven years on have yet to arrive.

What the people of Kirkby did get, was a multi million pound deficit on the sale of 56 acres of prime land, for what in football terms was loose change- just over one million pounds. A small amount of the land, 9 acres was then sold on shortly after purchase by Liverpool FC to David Lloyd for £2 million pounds. This gave the club a profit £1million pounds on the original purchase price of the 56 acres, the rest of the land, by Knowsleys own valuation process is now worth £56 million pounds. This gave the club an overall profit from the taxpayer's purse of £57 million pounds, all planned in secret by Henshaw, and Liverpool FC season ticket holder, Cllr James Keight OBE JP.

David Henshaw was recently knighted by new labour for services rendered, Keight was given a lesser award by new labour, the OBE, but was allowed to witch hunt out of the Council those critics who voiced concerns over his activities, proof if its needed that corruption and malpractice sits well with new labours project.

The civil authorities charged with protecting the public purse, the District Auditor must have taken up train spotting, rather than apply the same draconian approach to Knowsley as they showed to the Liverpool 47 who were kicked out of public office in the 1980s for nothing compared to these shenanigans in Knowsley. Is the Audit Commission part of the new labour project ?

Clearly the working class communities of Anfield and Walton have been let badly down by the Lib Dems and new labour who both got elected on a slogan " our parks are safe with us" Its highly unlikely Sefton Park would be sacrificed for developers as it serves the affluent parts of Liverpool.

However if Stanley Park is lost, the flood gates are open nationally. In Kirkby, thanks to Keight and Henshaw, there isn't a park big enough and accessible to serve the town. It is hoped the working class communities of Liverpool don't lose out like Kirkby did to the false promises and lies when a huge area of land was plundered by Liverpool FC from Knowsley Council at a rock bottom price. All this after the big sell, glossy leaflets, window of opportunity, and the puerile empty rhetoric inflicted on Councillors by the Rasputin like former boss man of Knowsley , Sir David Henshaw. All rise for the King of new labour!!