if maurice c is saying i post things under different names - no I don't. No point.
I wish you lot would stop screeching about supposedly underhanded tactics by lib dems.
I suspect all parties are as bad as each other on that score. And it is one of the things which turns people off politics. It's pathetic.
John didnt win votes through dodgy tactics. He won them by a mixture of sustained hard work and hard-won personal popularity at local level, plus a number of specific local issues where Labour shot themselves in the foot (withington hospital, local schools etc), plus strong anti-blair feelings on a national level.
Not through some poxy little leaflets that nobody but party activists on both sides read in the first place.
Unfortunately for you guys, labour is continuing to make itself look elitist and sleezy, so I doubt if things will get better for you in these elections.
Pity, because you deserve better than that locally, and a lot of good honest labour people must be boiling with anger over Iraq, NHS cockups, peerages for sale, corrupt spouses, presidential pretensions in downing street, dodgy loans and so forth.
Perhaps they should vote against labour to show their disgust, and get those idiots at the top to realise they don't own the country.
Which pretty well sums up why I, my wife, and a lot of our friends no longer vote labour, and why petty sniping at John Leech cuts no ice.
Compared to what Labour has done recently at national level, none of your complaints about perceived lib dem underhandedness can even begin to register.
Even you precious bloody cottage hospital on burton road is now in financial trouble because of the hare-brained artificial internal market policies youve introduced.
How on earth can you manage to sink billions into the NHS and STILL be perceived as wrecking it? I mean, who the hell costed all this? Mr Magoo? And which bright spark lets patricia hewitt within a million miles of a TV interviewer? patronising cow
