LABOUR'S historic victory in the Warbreck by-election has served notice to quit on the mis-ruling Lib Dems.
A twenty-year unbroken run of Lib Dem rule in the leafy ward came to a spectacular end, with an astonishing victory for Labour's Richard McLinden.
He overturned a Lib Dem majority of more than 1600 votes, with a thumping 770 seat majority for Labour.
The swing to Labour was more than 33 per cent - a breathtaking achievement and a first for Labour in Liverpool.
It means that since taking over as Fib Dem Leader, Warren 'I'm only a fireman' Bradley has now suffered 12 separate defeats.
Labour, with no-nonsense Joe Anderson as Leader, has meanwhile chalked up a series of 16 separate wins in a row.
The result, which took even the most loyal Labour supporters by surprise, means that Joe Anderson could now grab back control of the city council next May.
And what a fantastic victory that would be in 2008 - the year of Capital of Culture which the Lib Dems have done so much to wreck with their cock-ups and bungling.
The Fireman Bradley was noticeably absent from the election count - he was advised not to turn up for fear that his bottle would go when he saw Labour storming ahead.
Lib Dems feared that he would lose control for the second time and again lash out during an official count.
So Bradley was kept in touch at a safe distance by the mastermind behind the Lib Dem's historic and crushing defeat - former councillor Richard 'Inspector Clueless' Marbrow.
Inspector Clueless comprehensively cocked up the by-election campaign - and his (and Paula Keveaney's, eds) glum expression at the remarkable result revealed his sinking realisation that comeback seats are fast disappearing.
Clueless's stupendously stupid by-election campaign reached the nadir of bad taste, when Inspector Clueless came up with the bright idea of getting a dead woman to promote the Lib Dems from beyond the grave.(What? eds)
That's right - unbelievably, Clueless got the son of deceased councillor Joan Lang to write a letter to every elector in Warbreck proclaimning that it was her "dying wish" that Lib Dem candidate Richie 'I've got less than half a brain' Roberts should succeed her!
(Is there anything to which the Lib Dems won't stoop to try and hang on to power? eds)
This sickening little stunt backfired spectacularly when the voters told the Lib Dems what to do with their nasty little attempts at moral blackmail.
And delivered another resounding victory for Joe Anderson's principled Party.
