Peter, I respect your privacy issues but equally, how much longer can you go around making sweeping statements without supporting them up with credible examples. Hardly validates your point of view does it? The bare fact of the matter is that I want an MP that influences and delivers investment and improvements to my locality. John is big on perception and good at getting trashy propaganda laden with exaggeration through doors, but what about the bigger picture? Keith's problem was that he was a diplomat foremost so much of his work was done behind the scenes. He didn't pander to media agendas, nor did he adopt a rent-a-quote mentality to the local rags. Just quietly and efficiently went about his work, dealing with individuals and agencies directly and not expecting a fanfare when he got results. Not trying to put the guy on a pedestal but he is a genuine guy who guys about his locality foremost.
Look, nobody posting on this board believes that Labour is perfect (honestly) but can you truthfully say that any other political party would have delivered the changes that have transformed Manchester over the last decade? C'mon, look how far the city has come. Yes, there are big issues with poverty, crime etc that need addressing, but Manchester is a vibrant, dynamic, get-ahead city. Contrast that to 20 years ago. Try, if you can, to imagine the damage caused by Lib Dem policies that would hamper job creation, the fight against crime, economic growth etc etc.
The Lib Dems might seem fluffy, charming lovely people but they are simply charlatans when it comes to policies...saying all things to appease all people. Cuddling up to the right-wing Tories in the South, positioning themselves to the left of Labour in the inner cities.
Sorry love, tabloid headlines aside, I know which of the three political parties have the superior domestic policies...and if it helps, it ain't the Lib Dems or the Tories.
I admire the conviction you have in your arguments but a lot of what you say is either riddled in contradiction or unsubstantiated by fact.
The fact John Leech has not replied to Tom's mail, written as a constituent, is both scandalous and petty.
I mean, were you aware that John Leech used message boards to deride Keith Bradley in the months before the General Election? Then he gets elected a plays aloof/holier-than-thou. He's an MP there to represent people regardless of their political affiliation.
The man (John...not Tom!) has more faces than Big Ben and holding him to account/getting him to justify his actions is nothing more than a expectation everybody has of an elected politician.
Before you spew venom, can you please tell me what, exactly, John Leech has delivered/achieved in the last 12 months? (apart from leaflets and piss-poor letters to voters purporting to have been written in biro!)
