3rd January 2010

Here’s another gem from the defector:

“To date there have been no concerted efforts by local residents to compel me to call a by election ………  “

‘Compel’?   Really!  Does the ‘New Tory’ approach to democracy require compulsion? 

Never mind compulsion, would it perhaps be decent to say:

‘Well, as I’ve now broken with everything you voted for, I feel it only decent to resign and offer myself to you for re-election as a Tory.  This is because I fully realise you wouldn’t have voted for me in the first place if you knew what I’d do.

I took my own decision to swap sides, and stay in my position on the Council,  and I know you voted for the opposite of what I’m now doing.  So I’m not going to deny you the same quality of choice I took for myself – especially as you have no mechanism to ‘compel’ me to do so.”  ? 

Can it be that the reason Wallasey Tories are so doggedly determined to deny the people of Seacombe a by-election might be precisely because they are scared stiff of its inevitable result? 

After all the 2.81% swing to Labour in another recent by-election (in one of their very ’safest’ wards) must, we suspect, have sent quite a shiver down their spines backs.