WORCESTER’S lone Green councillor Neil Laurenson has found himself in a sticky situation during recent weeks – and it isn’t going to get any easier.

For the second successive spring, the politician has been gripped in a dilemma over which major party to back at Worcester City Council.

So finely balanced is political representation at the Guildhall, three councillors effectively hold the balance of power – and unless a handful of them resign at once it’s unlikely to change a great deal in the nearish future.

As we’ve seen over the last few days, his eventual decision to back the Labour coup has done more than just upset the city’s Tories, some of whom are so bitter they could probably sponsor Banks’s Brewery.

But word reaches The Source that not only are they unhappy with Coun Laurenson’s new stance – they don’t like the way he went about it either.

So intent was former Tory leader Simon Geraghty to cling on to power, he approached Coun Laurenson and even Louis Stephen, the party’s local chairman, to ask them if they wanted to discuss policies.

The attempt to prevent his administration collapsing like a pack of cards was about as successful as David Cameron’s appeal for party unity over gay marriage.

As one colleague puts it: “Simon said he’d like to have a discussion with them, but nobody ever came back to us on it. We were quite happy to have talks over policy so we could see where both sides were coming from, but they showed no desire whatsoever to engage with us.

“He just said, ‘Whatever I’ll decide, it’ll be what’s best for Worcester’. Well, we wanted that too, we all do – Ifind it strange he never bothered to even sit down with us.”

I don’t think this lot get on.

  •  Talking about Fruit Ninja Dave,I’m glad he’s been enjoying his richly deserved holiday in Ibiza, after all we all need to chillax.

But spare a thought for Robin Walker, who has recently returned from a break of his own in France with wife Charlotte and had more than just the post-holiday blues to contend with.

Worcester’s MP returned home to Blightly and developed a blinding “migraine from hell”, which progressed so dreadfully over the course of several days he ended up in Kidderminster Hospital.

Staff did an eye test and thankfully for us all, informed him he still has “20/20 vision”, meaning there is no requirement to return to the rusty old glasses he was last forced to wear aged seven. Happy holidays, eh?