Posts Tagged ‘Wirral Conservatives’

9th January 2010

‘Light hearted’?  Well, let’s face it, when a bunch of people as previously conventional as the Wallasey Tory Ladies figure in pictures of themselves, and of the Cuban Communists, in an article describing Wirral Tory politics and Fidel Castro’s Cuba in the same breath, can you do anything else but laugh?  It’s not something you’d be able to take seriously – were it not that their spokesperson who’s putting this stuff about (presumably with their blessing) actually speaks and writes as though they really mean it. 

Meanwhile the attached link will take you to a story by veteran news reporter Liam Murphy. 

http://blogs.wirralnews.co.uk/hamiltonsquared/

Red/Blue Tories?

It shows a picture of Cuban revolutionaries, recently published on a Wallasey Tory blog. 

Just below that, there is also a recent picture of Wallasey’s Tory Team, led by Cllr Mrs Leslie Rennie; and a local Liscard Tory Councillor who would like to be a Member of Parliament, with some others.  

They don’t actually look at all revolutionary - quite the opposite, they look rather primly conservative.  But that’s only our impression; the Tories know their own political party better than we do so it’s not for us to challenge their spoksman’s belief that the Tories are revolting revolutionary.

So make no mistake, we don’t dismiss these Tory publications lightly.   Their spokesman has been on so many lone visits to Cuba that we suspect he’s developed a real grasp of revolutionary methodology.   After all he’d previously accumulated a lot of leadership experience over here, as well.  Wasn’t he the Cabinet member who so eloquently advocated the closure of Wirral’s public lavatories?   More recently wasn’t he the Chairman of  ’Merseytram’?  And don’t we all know how difficult it is to avoid being knocked down by all the trams that are swarming about? 

But how real is the threat?  With Tory Cllr Knowles increasingly their most popular spokesman, and clearly able to lead Wirral Tories ideologically, will they now re-group (Perhaps even build a base among the dense tropical forests and duck ponds of Central Park?) to spearhead a Cuban style take over of Wirral?   

Their article (perhaps unwittingly) draws attention to the fact that it took Fidel only a couple of years to achieve his revolution whereas the Tories haven’t managed anything like it in the UK even after thirteen years.  OK, everyone knows ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’.   But we’re told the author of their new Wallasey ideology wasn’t the foreman on that job.

Are cuckoos ever truly safe in another bird's nest?

Meanwhile we can’t help wondering what happens when their spokesmen talk of revolutionary Tories and Cuban communism in the same breath.   

We await further reports on this great epic - with mild interest.

Jan 8 2010 – re an article by Liam Murphy, Liverpool Daily Post

Fire engine at Liscard Hall after the arson attack

Today’s Liverpool Daily Post runs an article about the decision to grass over the site formerly occupied by Liscard Hall, in Seacombe’s Central Park, following an insurance payment of £117,810 after its demolition.   This magnificent building was torched by arsonists who were able to get in because the security measures in place failed to keep them out.

Readers will recall how local Liscard Tory Councillor Leah Fraser rushed to her pen, scratching off a litany of questions for the Liberal Cabinet Member, Cllr Simon  Holbrook.  She demanded to know what measures he had taken to ensure the Hall’s safety from fire, from vandals, etc etc.   It looked really bad that this seemed not to have been done - but that turned to acute embarrasment when Labour reminded Cllr Fraser that she personally chaired the very Council committee with responsibility for Council owned buildings.  

We asked her whether she had initiated any of those safety precautions she rattled off at Cllr Holbrook.  The Hall was, after all, lost on her watch.  Surprise, surprise, she has never given an explanation of why she did none of the things she demanded of somebody else.  Had she just forgotten that she had that responsibility?  We would love an answer.

Readers will recall that when the Hall first became available her priority seemed to be to gift it to a private school on a peppercorn rent of £1 a year.  That caused a storm of local protest from the people who actually use the Park and wanted it for community use.

Meanwhile it seems like characteristic Tory spin when she is quoted in the ‘Post’ as saying:

“What a shame that it took the destruction of the building to make the council sit up and take notice.”

Seems puzzled about something here.

Err …  Has she forgotten that she is a Member of that Council, which she condemns as though it is something she has nothing to do with?

Err … Has she forgotten that she led the very committee of that Council with responsibility for Council owned buildings?  (Before she chaired it she was the Tory Party Spokesperson.)

Err … What was she doing all that time?

26.11.2009 

Are we witnessing a deepening Wirral east/west ‘Blues-news’ tiff?

The Council’s attendance at Expo 2010 in Shanghai seems to be causing differences between the different ‘Tory Tendencies’ on Wirral.  It has the ‘broad’ support of Wirral Blue leader Jeff Green, according to this week’s Wirral News, but he doesn’t seem to be singing from the same hymn sheet as Wallasey’s Top-Tory, Cllr Blakeley. For more information about their differences log onto  Wirral News website. 

Cllr Blakeley argues that the cost of sending the Council’s officers to bring in overseas investment should fall to a private construction/investment company; but his ‘all Wirral’ Tory Group Leader Cllr Jeff Green is reported to be broadly in support of the Borough acting directly to drum up the much needed investment; investment that could transform the area, bringing in thousands of jobs.  

Whoever leads the Wirral Tory Group next year let’s hope it’s somebody who can manage a smile, but they seem a bit short in supply just now. If they can’t manage a smile, could they manage a municipal administration?