I don’t normally cover day to day council politics here, but we have what I think is the first ejection of a Councillor since the Local Election last week.

If my stopwatch is working, Darren Gilbert has been a Councillor for … um …. just over 200 hours (or 8 days, which is shorter than the longest Cricket Test Match).

From Councillor John Dean, who leads the Council:

Mr Dean said: “It was alleged that Mr Gilbert had made up claims that he had cancer while working in a previous job.

“As soon as the Welwyn Hatfield Association were made aware of this we made our own inquiries.

“Mr Gilbert resigned from his position yesterday. He is no longer a Conservative councillor.”

Any more for any more?

Suggested alternative activity: take advantage of the cricket season, which has just started.