After the election post-mortem, the BULS head office turned to further naval gazing, this time over the monthly performance of the blog. In Tom Guise’s, first month as chair, the hits plummeted from 5543 to a meagre 5065. Guise’s aides claimed this was due to their leaders busy month of campaigning, and thus meant he was unable to steer them to further gains.
The news was greeted by a series of frantic blogs by disgraced former chair, Tom Marley who attempted to re-align himself within the hearts and minds of grassroots members. To add further poison to Guise’s woes, another former chair, John Ritchie returned for the local elections and has since been blogging as well. A source close to BULSInside suggested that both Marley and Ritchie were attempting a cous-d’etat, and that it was imminent. Guise, reportedly entered exile in London and has not been seen in Birmingham since he was spotted roaming Broad Street in the early hours of Friday morning. His parents have expressed mild-concern, close friends could not be located.
BULS members have blocked the email account in head office with calls for resignations. One member said “we need to know where we stand, we’ve lost the plot a bit. We just need to be able to tell people what it means to be BULS again.” Others were less couteous, demanding Guise’s head and other vital body parts. It will be hard to envisage how Guise and his aides can turn BULS around but we expect to hear further news on Wednesday afternoon, after Guise leads the new committee in their first meeting since assuming power.
Congratulations to all newly-elected Birmingham City Councillors. I happened to be browsing through the 
