Jan Hornby under pressure to quit Hull City Council after walking out on Lib Dems

“Ok get real everyone.
She left the Lib Dems, she was not the first and wont be the last but the reality is that this City got rid of more Lib Dems in the last 2 years and that is simply because the Lib Dems Lie Bully and each of the Lib Dems Leaflets are full of Lies mis- truths and scandal that they should rename the Libs Leaflets NOTW2.
What next Jan ! the Labour Party but I wonder why after the last two years of supporting your Government making cuts to this Council and the good people of Hull, after voting no end of times for the Lib Dems over the last few years now you see a new opportunity or have you seen the writing on the wall, Have you now become a socialist ? .
One thing about Ross and co they are supporting the cuts to the disabled, the Pensioners, Young people and we all know it is the Lib Dem Tories who keep on voting to cut the NHS for all of us. The Lib Dems are nothing short of the News of the World Liberal Democrat Liars. We all know what happened to the NOTW dont we Nick Clegg”

“It would appear to suggest she cares more about her own personal position than the party at large and the wider city."....a true dyed in the wool Liberal then !”

“Cllr Ross surely has little credibility left after this outright personal attack on what is seen as a hard working councillor. This is not the first time a Liberal Dem Councillor has left the local party in Hull and I am certain she will not be the last. Kat Hancock was another Holderness Ward councillor kicked out by the local party in a reselection battle; Geraldine Gough was marched to the Guildhall office to resign as a councillor. Nadene Burton and Anita Harrison both left the Lib Dems to become Independents. Not forgetting Janet Toker who also left. Why do so many women Lib Dems feel they cannot continue with the party? The answer may be in the venom and the way Cllr Ross uses personal comment in his attack on Jan”

“Seems to me that the lid-dems need to take a long hard look at themselves here, they need to ask why a current elected member has chosen to leave the party (Yes she did leave the party on her own accord and not because she was deselected as stated) and why other current elected members are feeling the same way. It can't be an easy thing for anyone to make this decision but I guess after almost 18 months of neglect, lies, bullying, and ignorance from the party that's supposed to care we would have all made the same choice. If we in the work place would have been treated in the same way we would have had a case for constructive dismissal. I know all us Genuine Hull people want someone who understands the complex issues we in hull face and will go that extra mile to fight for it, I know Jan personally and can assure anyone reading this that she will always do this. You have our support Jan carry on the great work and don't let them ware you down.”

“Logically why would any party go through a selection process 22 months before any elections, other than if they were panicking. A party with no direction or loyalty to their Cllr's or constituents?
On any election paper you vote for a person not the party, therefor Holderness Wold voted for Cllr Hornby not the Lib Dems ….. fact.
To make a statement that Cllr Hornby "cares more about her own personal position than the party at large and the wider city" is a joke, the photograph above is the biggest give away.
How many committees and bodies is Cllr Hornby on now? Answer, none, the Lib Dems have taken her off them all.
Last but no means least, to be beaten first you have to enter a race, Cllr Hornby did not enter the selection process because she has been hounded out and was given nowhere to turn.”

“At least with Labour you know which party you are actually voting for. As for Labour breaking promises what about Clegg breaking his pledge about tuition fees?.
Now THAT really "would appear to suggest he cares more about his own personal position than the party at large and the wider country."”

“What a load of lies yet again from the Liberal Democrats.

Jan did not attend the ballot to be reselected for one!!! Which suggests to me she did not want to re-run for them. Overall Jan has been a fantastic councillor and I am sure the people will vote for her whichever political party she runs for.

Not one other councillor has brought the sort of funding in that Jan has in order to provide for her ward. She certainly puts what the people of the Holderness ward want into practice. Instead of feeding a lot of false promises like most Liberal Democrats - who many people have lost faith in!!! So these obvious lies are an attempt to try make themselves look better.

Keep up the good work Jan, the truth will come out shortly, and I for one will look forward to people knowing what really happened!!!!”

“It should also be noted that under the UK's electoral system, Jan Hornby was not elected because she represented the Liberal Democrats but because she was Jan Hornby ... we vote for individual on the ballot paper not for parties.

I don't dispute that a lot of people (probably a large majority) do vote based on party affiliation, but as far as the system is concerned, she was elected as an individual and has the right to continue to serve her ward as an individual until the next election.”

“No party deselects a sitting councillor lightly. I don't know why this was done, but there will have been good reasons. In a way I can understand her resigning.”

“Yet again we see the Lib Dems being Liberal with the truth. There arent hundreds of compulsory redundancies. Some staff will leave because of the savage and ongoing cuts that THEIR MPs have voted for. How these charlatans can watch their own MPs walk through the lobby and vote with the Tories to cut Hulls funding to dangerously low levels, then complain when cuts are forced on the city is beyond belief. They should be apologising for their MPs actions, not spinning lies.”