Hands up everyone who saw GMPTA - in Labour hands for all of its 22-year history - turning Tory!!!

Even I didn’t see that coming until the night before when I got the tip…and even then, it was only finally settled 25 minutes before the meeting.

The new chairman, Trafford’s 34-year-old deputy leader Matt Colledge seems a decent bet but chairing an authority when you have only got 7 members out of 32 is knife-edge stuff, whatever the deal with the Liberals.

But here’s the rub….

Trafford is completely opposed to congestion charging - a scheme devised by Sir Howard Bernstein, the CLERK to the PTA.

Hows that going to work then?