When you’re ousted from one of the biggest jobs in city politics, where do you choose to sit on your return the back-benches?

Right in front of the press seats, of course!

Cllrs Ross Willmott, Patrick Kitterick and Andy Connelly have settled in to the three seats at the back – the furthest they can physically be from the new cabinet, and the closest seats to the media.

To the online observer, the meeting would have looked run of the mill, but the atmosphere was charged.

Andy and Ross took up the role of Statler and Waldorf, bouncing barbs about other councillors off each other throughout the meeting. Patrick, meanwhile, filled in a Guardian crossword puzzle and a Sudoku.

The boisterous behaviour at the back eventually led Labour chief whip Barbara Potter to stride over, telling them to be quiet.

“Go away,” replied Ross dismissively, as he scrolled through his Blackberry emails, making Potter even more annoyed.

The next 12 months at city council will be intriguing.

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