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Just seen it. Yippee. He's done enough damage to the city and Trinity over the years.

Feels like Christmas , should have stepped down 20 years ago then we wouldn’t be in this mess !

Let's hope we get a leader who's interested in Wakefield, somehow doubt it the dark side will close ranks and we get a new "Box".

Wouldn't surprise me if Denise Jeffries didn't step up.

Ding dong the witch is dead....

Looking out of my window I was expecting to see fireworks, bonfires and street parties. Everybody must be waiting for the weekend.

Good riddance to the man (?)!!!! Perhaps his successor will be a real socialist, and bring some pride back to this once great city.

There was a small group from the town hall in the pub having a celebratory drink

Our City has suffered immense damage at the hands of the man. Good Riddance !!!

I only hope that he is not replaced by another clown who thinks the world starts and ends in Castleford.
However looking at all the other labour councillors, many don't give a …. about Wakefield and probably only come to the City to attend their compulsory meetings and collect their expenses. I really hope they have someone amongst their ranks with intelligence, honesty and integrity to help reverse the declines our City has suffered under the leadership of Box.

should it not be voted by the Wakefield public

It's not right to be cynical but, usually the deputy leader takes over or one that the Labour party & unions pick with the politics they like, so, there are far more Cas councilors than wakey councilors !!!!
But ever the optimist in me hopes we get a local wakey person with good fair balance & lifts the city, we have had enough of Cas first !
Box was massively disingenuine to the point of our & out lies, pressure was building. Only my opinion of course, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

Yes there will be an election but the only people allowed to vote in it are the councillors themselves.

The majority on the council by far are labour and most of them don't represent Wakefield and don't care about the City.

The outlook is not great . I am hoping there is someone who has the skills and integrity to lead the council in a fair, honest and proper way amongst the Labour ranks.

Totally surprised that the actions of Wakefield Council under Box were not highlighted nationally as the Donnygate scandal was.

I've actually thought this myself.

Not the "gone" I hoping for but it's a start. Doesn't his new job allow him to destroy Yorkshire now?

I shouldn't laugh really

Delighted the crook has finally slung his hook. Hopefully the city can move on from his dictatorship.

Perhaps the whole Wakefield Council debacle over the last twenty-one years would have made the national news in the way Donnygate did, wakeytrin, if we'd have had a local newspaper with some guts rather than the sycophantic rag that poses as the "Box can do no wrong", Wakefield Express. A so-called "local" newspaper that is produced and printed in Sheffield. I think their Trinity news is gleaned from information posted on this forum.

Who knows, but this could be the good news Trinity fans were told to expect on the ground front a month back! Joking aside, a real stumbling block out is out of the way now, let's see what the new person brings.

Aye up PB

I’ll make this brief as I don’t like to linger on this forum these days.

If I recall Jeffries was always sympathetic to our stadium but when push came to shove was far to gutless to stand up to Box.

If she does take over the reigns do you reckon she might offer us a bit more? I’m not talking NM as that’s dead in the water but something better than we currently have?

Hi Vasty

Without going into a long list of reasons, my opinion is that she will also be standing down very quickly.

I have not the slightest idea who might take over either as I don't think there is that much talent in the council. One thing Box did to stifle all opposition was to make sure no one came on to the council who could ever threaten his position.

However I will say this, Box was very good at stringing us all along and we all thought that eventually we may get something out of all this, when in fact it should now be obvious that there was no intention to do that. I really believe that Yorkcourt will not be contributing a penny and the club will soon be back to where it was 20 years ago in that it will own a crappy ground and have a massive debt to service. This last 20 years has been a sham.

Really? is that as much faith as you have in the current management?

No our present management are great. But they are not supermen or magicians, they will not see a penny from Yorkcourt.
I have no idea where they will get the money from to pay back the ground loan or in fact start the development.

Fair enough, it's obviously crossed my mind where the money is coming from, but I just can't see MC and co getting us into unmanageable debt.
As for Yorkcourt, they've managed something Houdini would have been proud of, albeit with assistance it seems.