‘Suspension’ Tory style
23rd April
Now that he is (supposed to be, although you might not notice it) ’suspended’ from the Conservative Party, defector Denis Knowles is still putting propaganda through letter boxes – calling on the people of Seacombe to vote for his Party’s Conservative candidates. Doesn’t that look pretty much like Party Political campaigning? Let’s hope his imprint’s in order.
He is also blaming Labour for his latest misfortune, following his Facebook publication about which so many people complained. He writes: “… I suspect much of it follows my decision to leave them when they tried to close Guinea Gap baths and Seacombe Library”.
Err … who is he kidding? Was there anybody more in favour of the closure proposals than Cllr Denis Knowles? Let us assist his memory.
Guinea Gap Baths and Seacombe Library
- He says now that he left Labour over the baths and library issue. But he voted at the time, in Council, for Seacombe Library and Guinea Gap baths to be closed. That is an indisputible matter of record. Surely, if what he now says is true, that would have been the time to resign?
- Far from resigning he declared their closure would be: ‘For the greater good’. That is also a matter of record; it was published in the press at the time and he has never been able to deny it. In fact the Tories taunted him for it in Council.
- If he ever believed the proposals were undesirable why didn’t he say so at the time, and argue against them? Cllr Adrian Jones did just that – in writing. He suffered no ‘reprisals’ or detriment from his Party for making his views known. Denis could have done the same. He didn’t, so why is he now claiming that he was unhappy when he never gave anybody the merest hint of it? Don’t the only verifiable facts suggest the exact opposite?
Suspension from the Conservative Party
His letter gives the impression that his suspension from the Tory Party (which accepted him without a single Conservative vote ever having been cast for him) was influenced by Labour.
- We would love to think we could have such influence over the Tory decision makers! Sorry Denis, we don’t, so that won’t stick.
- He was suspended by the Conservative Party. Nobody else.
- His suspension by the Conservatives followed allegedly offensive comments on ‘Facebook’.
- When a veteran news reporter asked him about it, the reporter says Denis denied it – but the reporter had downloaded a copy. So had others. Could it be denied then?
We won’t ask readers to take our word for any of this. Instead we’ll quote Wirral’s Top Tory – Council Conservative Group leader Jeff Green who said, when he suspended Cllr Knowles:
“There is only one thing worse than making a mistake and that is not putting your hands up and admitting it.”
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