ONCE again I see Wigan Council operating like some self-appointed fascist state.

I refer to the council’s full two-page ‘Advertisement Feature’ of Cllr Robert Brierley in the latest edition of the Journal.

Not only has the council acted as judge and jury in a behind closed doors kangaroo court, it appears to have used taxpayers’ money to publicly defame Cllr Brierley in what is clearly political propaganda.

I am not interested in what Cllr Brierley may, or may not, have said. I am furious that my council tax has been used to make political gain in the upcoming local elections.

The irony is that Cllr Brierley is accused of bullying behaviour yet the council then uses bullying tactics to character assassinate him.

A word of advice to all in the fiefdom of the council, this sort of infantile, political shenanigans fools nobody, least of all me.

Neil Taylor