I’m a Lib Dem supporter and would like you all to note that John Leech and his Lib Dems have never said, never done, anything contradictory ever, nor are they anything but virtuous and full of integrity. It's all sour grapes. Yes it is.
You’d never find John and his councillors standing outside a hospital and whipping up bogus claims it was to close merely to garner public opinion. Not would John vote against Foundation Hospitals and then be pictured in the local rag ‘supporting Christie Hospital’s Foundation Trust’ status.
Nor would John and the Lib Dems endorse the opening of a Community Hospital they deemed to be a glorified outpatients clinic just 12 months prior. They wouldn’t support anti-social disposal orders in Didsbury when their MPs voted against such legislation in parliament.
Nor would the Lib Dems tell Joe Public that 24 hour licensing chaos was about the descend on Didsbury when, 18 months on, not one bar in South Manchester has a 24 hour licence.
The Lib Dems have never to voters that Withington Post Office was under the threat of closure and their MP then not being pictured beaming at the re-opening of the refurbished premises.
When Charles Glover was a councillor in Oldham he attended lots and lots of meetings and didn’t fall from grace, only to resurface as a ‘Chorlton resident.’
Oh, and John didn’t, at some time or other, support both Kennedy, Huhne, Oaten and Campbell for the leadership battle. And the Lib Dems had a very amicable selection procedure in Didsbury West where Dickie Clayton asked sitting Councillor Simon Wheale to stand aside and Simon leapt at the chance to stand in Withington.
Alan, in keeping with the spirit of liberalism and freedom of speech, please stop having your own opinions and keep outside a 20 mile radius of Manchester Withington.
Peter H - you are the voice of common sense. How could anybody disagree?
