The political landscape has been hotting up as rumours of another defection swirl around Reading. Following Azam Janjua's unseemly haste to ditch Labour and join the Tories and Tony Jones resignation from the Labour Party to become a Battle Independent, news reaches muckspReading that another councillor fed up with Reading politics will shortly be crossing the floor.

The front runner as the next "Judas" appears to be Tory financial wizard David Stevens who has recently been caught propping up the Labour administration against the votes of his party colleagues - although he himself claims it was simply a misunderstanding about his love for 'Dad Rock'. Mr. Stevens claims he sided with the Labour whip because he thought the motion at the Corporate Community and External Affairs Panel was to preserve the Status Quo.