Archive for March, 2010
Wirral Tory Councillor suspended
31st March 2010
Almost a year ago Seacombe Labour Councillor Denis Knowles defected to the Conservatives.
The Tories welcomed him with great trumpeting – notwithstanding that he had not resigned to allow the electorate to endorse his political somersault in a by-election. But after a year in which Cllr Knowles has been delivering Tory literature through the letter boxes of the loyal Labour voters who elected him to the Council his new Tory chums have suspended him.
Detailed reasons for his suspension are published in today’s ‘Daily Post’ and in the ‘Echo’. It is not necessary for us to relate the reasons for his suspension as they are set out by Cllr Jeff Green, the Wirral Tory Party leader in press reports that can be viewed using the link below.
Keep watching. The Tories are forever producing news that is not exactly to their advantage.
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Wirral Egg Run
New Brighton's iconic clown statue overlooks.
28th March 2010
Today saw the latest of the famous Wirral Egg Runs.
Despite some hiccups in recent years this amazing event is going from strength to strength with a first class team leading it. Adrian, a Trustee of the Run, has supported it – and also the Toy Run – for many years.
Adrian wraps up for the fresh breeze at today's Egg Run
Back in the 1960s, living in a pretty isolated part of rural Wales, Adrian depended on low cost army surplus motor bikes to get to work. He comments: ‘Compared with the bikes we had in those days these modern machines are absolutely fabulous. But I was delighted to see some vintage models there including such British marques as Triumph, AJS, BSA and although I did not spot it among the mass of motor-cyles I was told that there was also a Brough. The motorcyclists do a great service; they are a credit to the British charitable culture and they bring happiness to the kids.’
Older entries – see also our ‘Egg run’ posting of23rd February 2010
Must be a rabbit!
‘Daily Post’ revelation: Debt Collector “bank-rolls” Wallasey Tories to the tune of £50,000
26th March 2010
In a devastating news story the ‘Liverpool Daily Post’ reports that Wallasey Tories have allegedly received £50,000 from a local debt collector.
TO READ MORE ABOUT THE ‘DAILY POST’S’ REVELATIONS ABOUT TORY PARTY FUNDING IN THIS CONSTITUENCY, AND TO SEE THE TORIES’ FRANTIC WRIGGLING, FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW
Adrian says: "Oily Tory words on glossy paper are less than people are entitled to expect. I think people will understand that distortions even on the prettiest paper are still distortions. We may use local printers and plain paper but our postbag tells us that people like plain words on plain paper. The Tories may slide along on gloss but that's not our way."
Tories have 'lotsa cash' for glossy leaflets
When Seacombe residents see the HUGELY expensive glossy leaflets the Tories have been able to afford for a long time they may have wondered why Seacombe Labour Party does not reply with a constant stream of similar costly glossies.
The answer is simple. We represent the working people who live in Seacombe, Poulton, Somerville and Egremont. We get most of our funding from the people who live in our ward. We have taken no money from debt collecters or from big businesses!
And before the Tory propaganda machine alleges differently, Seacombe Labour Party has not asked for, nor received, a single penny from any trade union. Every penny we have for leaflets comes from individual members and from our own fund raising evenings. Our (mostly plain black and white) newsletters are either produced ourselves or, mostly, by a local printer. We may produce a glossy at the end of the campaign - if we can afford it – but we do not share the Tories’ ways of getting funded.
But we do believe the words on the paper are more important than the glossiness of the paper they are printed on.
So what is the Trade union link with LABOUR?
The Tories do their best to give the impression that there are two equal sides in which trade unions are comparable to the big businesses that support their party. Their subtle propaganda leaves the impression that trade unions are themselves akin to businesses.
They are not; the unions are organisations set up to defend working conditions for ordinary people and to secure representation for them. Their link with LABOUR is quite simply that they helped create the Labour Party.
But Tory propaganda still tries to suggest that trade unions in some way bank-roll Labour in the way millionaire business men bank-roll the Conservative party. The trade unions established the Labour Party precisely because there was no other party to represent working people. The Tories and Liberals had always supported and represented the interests of big business and land owners. Has anything changed?
When the vast majority of the population had no party to support them, in Parliament or on local Councils, it was the trade unions, co-operative societies, Christian organisations, and Socialist societies that gradually became the foundation from which the Labour Party was born. When individual trade union members contribute to their union’s political fund they do so because the Labour Party, that they created, is theirs.
No trade unionist pays a penny who does not want to – any member can opt out. But as well as trade unionists we have huge numbers of ordinary people who are not in trade unions (eg retired people, small business owners, students, etc) but join because they want to be a part of the Party that created the National Health Service; the minimum wage; Sure Start; and most of the progressive legislation that still exists.
Those with memories of the Thatcher and Major Tory governments never want to go back to the dark days of mass unemployment under the Tory Party that opposed all of this. The very word ‘Conservative’ suggests the politics of fossils ’to stay the same’.
They say they want change, but they do not say what the changes would be. We suspect that turning the clock back to the dreadful conditions under previous Tory Governments is what they would like to ’conserve’. And when their leader David Cameron already has fourteen millionaires in his shadow cabinet do the working people of Seacombe have any doubts about whose interests the Tory Party will champion?
If YOU might wish to join the Labour Party why not get in touch?