Posts Tagged ‘Tory Watch’

Republished 1st July 2010 – our prediction being absolutely dead right!

Yes, just as we predicted on 24th, an increasingly lonely ’Tory’ Councillor is now peddling a propaganda sheet claiming that the Tories did it! 

You just couldn’t make it up could you?

Cllr Darren Dodd spectacularly captured Liscard Ward in May. He is now campaigning for the whole of Wirral to save LABOUR'S free swimming for Wirral. The Cameron Tory/Liberal 'ConDem' government has announced it intends to scrap free swimming

Our advice is to take the Tory propaganda with a big pinch of salt and sign up immediately to the All Wirral on-line petition organised by dynamic new Liscard Labour Councillor Darren Dodd – to make sure the Tories don’t renege on the Labour decision they have just been forced to endorse.

Just click onto:

 http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-free-swimming-in-wirral/signatures.html

Then please pass it on to all of your friends.

ORIGINAL – 24th June 2010

At the time of placing this post the new Con-Dem Cabinet consisting of the Wirral Tory Group and its Liberal crutch is meeting in the Town Hall. 

We predict – and how wonderful it would be to be wrong – that the Wirral public will once more be presented with classical Tory propaganda.  We suspect they will claim that THEY brought Guinea Gap Baths out of the risk of closure and that they did it today. 

But we’re used to Tory propaganda aren’t we?  So here’s what really happened:

At the February Cabinet meeting Labour was still in power with Liberal support.  (The Liberals hadn’t joined the Tories at that point.)  This is what Labour had already decided in February:

“In considering Guinea Gap Baths Cabinet notes that the original decision was to provide for Guinea Gap Baths to remain open while the potential for alternative schemes as part of a longer term waterfront development was explored.  (Note – this was not about closing the baths but keeping them open whilst awaiting the possiblity of new ones!) The impact of the recession on private sector development now makes this a much more distant possibility.  Cabinet therefore asks the Director of Law HR and Asset Management to bring a report to Cabinet which will allow the Cabinet to restore the funding of Guinea Gap to the base budget when the current funding runs out.”

In other words because it now seemed unlikely that a new baths was any longer on the cards Guinea Gap was to continue exactly as before.   All the Tories and Liberals have to do this evening is to confirm the decision Labour made in February – before the Con-Dems entered into their collaboration – and not change it.

What’s the betting they’ll claim they saved it, and they saved it today? 

Watch this space tomorrow.

7th May 2010 – 5.00am 

The vast resources funding the local Tories’ electoral machine, with its never ending glossy publications, could not match Labour’s honest campaigning and relentless exposure of Tory propaganda.   

Never short of a little excess of self confidence the Tories were devastated by the extent of Labour’s victory. 

We will continue the report when the Council election results are also available later today.

6th May 2010 – just a bit later in the day

The driver seemed a nice sort of chap. Can't be his fault. But don't the Tories in the regime give advice? Tut, tut.

At yet another polling station in full view of voters there is another car parked with a candidate’s posters in full view. 

This is a party that has been at electioneering for years with experienced people in charge. 

They can’t possibly plead ignorance of the conventions.  Is this just sloppiness?  Hmmm …..

6th May 2010  – late morning

And who was suspended at the time?

Oh, dear! A blatant advert for the Tory candidate right outside a polling station in full view of voters. Will they never learn?

This car was seen immediately outside a polling station today.  Advertising the Tory candidate to all and sundry, on their way to vote, can it be wholly compliant with acceptable election day practice? 

And inside the polling station was none other than their allegedly ’suspended’ Tory member of the Council.  A little later, at 10.30am the said ’suspended’ Tory was seen knocking doors and delivering leaflets.  That’s hardly a surprise as he was seen on the front page of their recent leaflet together with Tory candidates.  

Suspended?  According to the Wirral Top Tory he was.  This ’suspension’ came soon after he had published material on the internet that caused offence to many people.  He denied it to a news reporter – but the reporter had already downloaded it.   He then had to own up and his ’suspension’ was announced in ringing terms declaring that the Tories had changed. 

But where’s there a sign of ’change’ in this if Wallasey Tories can flout a suspension decreed by their Wirral Group leader?   Well, let’s not intrude too far into their internal squabbles.

Why would anybody ever believe the Tories again?