“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

It’s a pity the people in officialdom at Ludlow Town Council appear not to be able to do the same thing.

I’ve seen playground spats at a local primary school handled with more maturity than the current row threatening to make the Ludlow council more of a laughing stock than Dawn French and her cohorts in the Vicar of Dibley.

Some councillors, it seems, have decided they can’t work with incoming Mayor Marie Glaze, claiming she is “out of her depth” (quite how deep cutting a few ribbons and attending the odd tea party is is beyond me, but then I’ll never be mayor of anywhere).

So, according to Councillor Gaze, council staff have become unhelpful and may have even refused to adjust her mayoral robes, so at tonight’s mayor making ceremony she will look like she’s wearing a tent.

The town’s clerk, however, denies either he or his staff have been going out of their way to mess things up for Councillor Gaze.

Honestly, children. If this was me and my brother my mum would have threatened to bang our heads together.

So far three councillors and the clerk have taken the “it’s my ball and I’m going home” approach and decided to quit.

One of those warned that the town council was like “a ship without a rudder” drifting into “dangerous waters”.

Councillor Gaze decided to continue to the analogy by saying: “These people are like rats deserting a sinking ship.”

Can’t help thinking that by calling Ludlow Town Council a sinking ship she may have shot herself in the foot a bit. Still, her oversized robes will probably absorb most of the impact from the bullet.

• David Burrows is the Shropshire Star’s National News Editor.
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