Southport Tory infighting has been highlighted many times and especially since Ainsdale’s Cllr Terry Jones presided over his party’s last humiliating political wipe-out, wherein all Conservative seats in the resort where lost. More recently, suspended Cllr David Barton’s controversial attempts to bring a private Liverpool security firm into the town to tackle antisocial activity have been criticised by Cllr Jones and his colleagues, cllrs Pat Ball and Harry Bliss. Jones, who had previously suspended Barton, pending the outcome of an ongoing fraud investigation, stated that he did not approve of Barton’s actions. Consequently, the Southport Tories have distanced themselves from … Continue reading Latest Southport Conservative in-fighting rips into the Party