There’s a genre of fiction which is known as ‘alternative history’. Coupled with its close brother ‘counterfactual’ it imagines what would have happened in a real period of our history if it didn’t turn out the way that it did?
Last Saturday, after four very long months, the Labour leadership contest which had been triggered by Jeremy Corbyn’s historic drubbing last December, finally came to an end.
Coalville residents, of which I am proud to be one, will know that our political opposition with their predilection for selling snake oil are pushing the idea of a new ‘Town Council’ for Coalville.
