FORMER Labour councillor Paul Bretherton seems to be living in some kind of fantasy world.

His weekly diatribe against respected councillors and Warrington North’s MP just smacks of desperation.

When is he going to wrap his head around the fact that his ‘de-selection’ wasn’t part of some vast conspiracy, but simply because he isn’t up to the job?

He is one of the town’s laziest councillors.

There was no plot being masterminded, it was a clear, democratic choice by Labour Party members in Rixton and Woolston (not from London, or anywhere else) who opted not to pick Mr Bretherton as their candidate.

It says a great deal about a councillor who cannot muster a single supporter from his own community to show up and back him.

His desperate bid for office as an independent candidate is destined to flop.

Cllr Bretherton has the worst attendance in the council, you just have to look online to see how shambolic his record is.

His blunt statement that he ‘makes no apologies’ for not showing up is even more disgraceful.

Is he seriously telling us that we should elect him to fulfill his promise of not bothering to represent us?

If the ballot papers haven’t already been printed, perhaps the council could cross out Mr Bretherton’s name and replace it with Walter Mitty.

JENNIFER RODGERS Woolston