You couldn’t make them up.  How ridiculous is this?

This hilariously contradictory quote was recently put into the public domain by somebody who is now Labour’s strongest recruiting agent in Seacombe Ward, and we suspect beyond.   Yes ’Defector’ Cllr Knowles really did say this:    

I transferred my allegiance to the Conservative Party in May of this year …………………….  “

But in the very same paragraph: “Viva Fidel! Viva Raul! Viva the Revolution!  

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.

‘Quaint quotes’ – 22nd December 2009

David Cameron’s policies ‘revolutionary’?

In one of his quainter quotes, to date, that’s the term ex Labour Councillor  Knowles (defected) used when he applauded national Tory policies.  In a prepared ’speech’, read at Monday’s Council meeting, he out-paced his new Conservative chums by loudly voicing what seemed like ’born again’ loyalty for national Tory policy - declaring it to be ‘revolutionary’, no less.   

It was surreal to hear Denis applauding David Cameron’s ‘New’ Toryism with words like ’revolutionary’ - although in his ’Labour Left’ days he was never at a loss for such mantras which forever popped up from his lexicon of political cliches.  It seems he hasn’t grasped that perhaps he should find different ones now he’s changed into a Tory.  

Weeks before defecting to Wallasey Tories (which he did about six hours after signing Labour’s loyalty pledge) Denis was so warmly disposed to Cuban revolutionaires that he commended to a Labour Party  meeting the superiority of Cuban Communism over Western Capitalism.  He quoted Che Guevara who, he says, gave the world this advice: 

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”

Yes, that really was the ‘New Tory’, Denis Knowles, quoting one of the historical figures who inspired his politics before his ‘eureka’ moment last May!

What greater ’love’ – ‘revolutionary’ or otherwise – could Denis now show his Seacombe electorate, who so loyally put their political trust in him as their Labour candidate, than to let them demonstrate their ’love’ for him  as a Tory – in a by-election?