Some well thought out aims there.

I think 'letterheads with a Leigh logo' is the one which will sway most folk.

Or maybe the one about the land being flat. Thats a one way ticket to a local building boom is that. It will be great to rip up the bypass too and return it to rail. Can't wait.

No whips is a good one too. S&M has never really floated my boat.

Would totally support this a concept, but we need to know the full story. For example..would it be more expensive to run a Leigh Council separately and if so, how much would council tax have to go up to pay for it? Would we lose anything by not being part of Wigan..? Where would LSV fit in? How do you actually go about breaking away and forming your own council?

Don't get me wrong, I would love Leigh to be independent (even from 3000 miles away) but that is from an emotional angle - would love to see all the facts as well..

Well all the above came home to me when I was travelling through Warringotn the other day. The name Leigh has disappearred off some of the signs coming out of town. They just say W"£$n.

Its gone too far now to be able reverse things. Apathy won the day unfortunately.
If it means paying even more money via my most hated of taxes then forget it.

To be quite honest, a complete and even partial breakaway is [ivery[/i unlikely. I'd be quite happy to just see a degree of powersharing and a renaming of the borough to become "Leigh and Wigan MBC" or summat along those lines.

They are trying for it in Atherton as well.

Believe that's a separate effort from Leigh though - there'd be far more chance of it happening if it was a Leyth, Bent and Bongs council IMHO.

hopefully i'll live to see the day but if you dont get all the towns on this side of wigans borough thinking the same way and working towards the same goals you've got no chance one town on its own is not big enough to influence the thinking in london

If that happens I will start my own campaign to get Tyldesley out of Leigh!!!

I'll be signing up tomorrow without hesitation.

Leigh Centurions should also get behind this initiative in my opinion. It's time the club stood up for it's people in this kind of manner.

Our Town, Our Team, Our Dream.

swinton might argue against that point