A rose by any other name is just as smelly!

So at the end of the day, it's all down to words and definitions.
Whilst he couldn't be bothered to answer Boston Eye's politely repeated enquiries, Councillor Ramonde Newell has told the Boston Standard the reason why the name of the Boston Bypass Independents has disappeared from the list of parties represented on Lincolnshire County Council.
He says he has banded together with other independent members so as to have "a greater stake in the political process at county level."
"What I wanted to do was get on the Highways committee. If I remained as a singleton it would have been impossible."
Councillor Newell was at pains to stress he was not collaborating with a party, but a group.
And this is where words and definitions come into play.
The thesaurus treats the words "party" and "group" as interchangeable
The county council allocates committee seats in proportion to the number of councillors in each party.
It also defines the grouping of independents which includes Councillor Newell as a political party.
Many of those listed in the "group" are members of Lincolnshire Independents, whose political manifesto declares that "they seek to represent their communities directly and thus close communication is important ... local needs consultation is more important ... Independents are elected on their own merit and thus tend to be closely in touch with their communities, committed to supporting them in many ways."
Based on that, we don't somehow see them rallying round to support Boston's claim for a bypass, when they will individually have other more specifically local issues to address.
As you might expect, none of this seems to bother Councillor Newell unduly.
His sleight of hand with terminology has achieved his hoped-for position on the council’s Highways Transport and Technology Scrutiny Committee.
"It means a great deal,” he told the Standard. "That’s what it was always about. The committee that makes decisions on Boston’s road structure is the highways committee."
All very fine, but he has ten other members of that committee to persuade, and it will be interesting to hear what, if anything, he has to say at his first meeting on 20th July.
The rest of the committee comprises three members from Lincoln and two from Grantham, one from Gainsborough,Stamford, Deeping St James and Wainfleet, plus another Boston councillor, Raymond Singleton-McGuire.
The fact that the chairman represents Wainfleet might help or hinder the Boston cause, as to support our by-pass bid could be seen as favouritism.But, ever-confident, Councillor Newell is setting his sights beyond just his fellow indies and Highways Committee members.
"I’m hoping to convince all 77 members of Lincolnshire County Council that Boston deserves a bypass," he says.
We won't hold our breath.
All we know is that politically, the name of the BBI is nowhere on the roll-call of parties at County Hall and wonder whether, as time goes by, the deal will have turned out to be worth it.

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