Nothing much of interest happened at the meeting in the end. We got out our leaflets trying to put across the Labour position on the boundary changes. However, the surprising thing was that there weren’t actually that many people there.

I had printed 600 leaflets thinking that there would be more people in the Civic Hall and some in the overflow. However, there were only around 300 people there. Out of that there were probably around 40-50 councillors, at least another 100 key partners and the rest were members of public.

From the discussion about boundaries, it seemed that most of the people were from Ormskirk and surrounding villages / towns because they were mainly against going into Sefton. There was little mention about the areas going into Wigan.

The whole thing was an unremarkable exercise for the council to say how great they are and to put across a very biased view on the boundary changes.