Following my entry on Friday, I see that Martin Francis has also commented. Martin has got it slightly wrong. Firstly if a councillor is not fully paid up member of the Labour Party, he can't be a member of the Labour Group so he would have to sit as an Independent. He could, of course, refuse to accept office in which case there would be another by election. As with other recent examples of Independent councillors, not being a member of a political group does not lead to them losing their seats, although they could not serve as members of the Labour quota on Council Committees.
Finally, the Standards Committee could not take action against him for his offensive tweets since was not a councillor at the time and was therefore not bound by the Code of Conduct. It presumably can't take action against anyone until its former Chair (Councillor Allie, as was) is replaced.
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