Posts Tagged ‘Wirral Conservatives’

With 14 or so millionaires in his cabinet is it any surprise that Cameron’s Tory Government, propped up by its Liberal crutch, is now taking from the poor to ensure the rich stay that way?  It’s particularly interesting to observe the clever language being used in the subtle propaganda campaign.

‘We are all in this together’  -  ‘We must all share the burden’  -  ‘Hard but fair’  – and so on and so forth.  But when we look at the huge international debt what does it consist of? 

Is it your debt?  Is it my debt?

Isn’t it the Bankers’ debt?  And doesn’t it consist of entries in ledgers as distinct from debts of real money? 

The Tories have always been ideologically antagonistic to any sort of real benefit for working people for the very simple reason that all things are paid for from the surpluses of industry.   If a high proportion of the surplus goes to providing health care, pensions, good schooling, decent leisure facilities, and good living standards for the workers in society who produce the wealth then the portion of the surplus left for the bankers, the industrialists, and the other profit makers is that much lower. 

So when all the dross is cut away isn’t that what the Tory/Liberal alliance is now about?

And where do Wirral’s Liberals stand in this mess?  Incredibly, they have chosen to prop up the Wirral Tories.  And Wirral Tories, when they are not fantasising about being Cuban Marxists***  are preparing themselves to carry out the assault on Wirral services and jobs demanded by the Con-Dem national coalition government.

It can’t last can it?  We await with interest the first breaks from within the Liberal wing of the Wirral Collaboration.  When those Wirral Liberals who see their chances of ever being re-elected fading rapidly away will they want to see it through with the Tories they have always thought of as their most absolute enemies?  Interesting times? 

*** Truth is stranger than fiction – but regular readers of these pages know all about that.  Newer readers, please check our ‘older entries’ for regular reports from one Wallasey Tory about how his partyh are inspired by Fidel Castro’s and Che Guevara’s  revolution.   You really couldn’t make it up – but there it is!

25th June 2010
  

Following last night’s Cabinet meeting. Cllr Phil Davies Deputy Leader of the Labour Group said:

Wirral's Labour Group Leader Cllr Phil Davies condemns the collaborating Con-Dems as they implement savage Tory/Liberal Government's cuts on the people of Wirral

Cllr Green is fiddling while Wirral burns. As long as he chases cheap headlines and bats all the issues into the long grass the crisis will continue to deepen. Every month that goes by without decisions increases the risk that Council workers will lose their jobs, and residents their services, not because of the financial crisis, but because the incompetence of local politicians has dramatically increased the scale of cuts necessary. He will literally have talked us into disaster.
 
It’s time to get real. He still has £4m to find of in year revenue savings. On current projected figures he has another £24.4m to find by March 2011 and an additional £57m to find over the following two years. On a pro rata basis that means that next year alone, amongst other things, nearly £8m has to be cut from Adult Social Services, over £6m from Children’s Services, over £2m from Cultural Services, nearly £2m from Housing and Regeneration and over two million from Technical Services (covering highway maintenance, traffic schemes, bin collections etc.)
 
If anyone thinks this can be achieved without affecting front line services, and without disproportionately affecting the poorest and most vulnerable members of our community, they are kidding themselves. The bad conscience suffered by Wirral’s Liberal Democrats over the national increase in VAT, which they campaigned vigorously against in the national election because it affected the poor most, will pale into insignificance when they see the real, harsh consequences locally of their own government’s decisions played out across Wirral by their own joint administration.
 
That’s assuming, of course, that this administration is capable of reaching any decisions in time to set a legal budget.  Jeff, it is time for you to do what Labour has done for the last 15 years. Accept the responsibility  of Leadership. YOUR government has imposed massive cuts upon us – YOU DEAL WITH THEM.” 

“Cllr Green is way out of his depth in this crisis. It is painful to watch him dithering and floundering around trying to work out what to do. Given the scale of the financial challenge now facing the Council, courtesy of his government, we expected to see, at the least, a list of costed options for savings which would give the Council a good start towards reaching its target. 

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?