No Alan, we're talking about why the voters of this constituency voted for John Leech instead of Keith Bradley. That was the raison d'etre for this website. Christies was a footnote to the chapter, nothing more, except to activists like yourselves. To the general electorate it scarcely registered as an issue. I'm not fudging any issue. Quite the opposite. I'm attempting to introduce a sense of proportion into the debate on why you now have JL as your MP instead of KB. If you duck the issues which caused you to lose and instead pick on a side-issue and try to make into a cause celebre then you will fool nobody but yourselves and you will undermine your own future efforts to win the seat back. Jon R is right. Lies are not acceptable full stop. As to where an exaggeration becomes a lie,that's a matter of personal judgement. Trouble is that the Labour Party in South Manchester lost its credibility over hospitals by the way it handled Withington Hospital and then dishonestly tried to shift blame to the Tories and pretend that the new "community hospital" was some kind of victory. Fact of the matter is that this affects more voters here than Christies. So if we are talking dishonesty over hospital matters, Labour party should move out of its glass house pretty quickly before it shatters around their feet. Christies is a wonderful place, but it is (happily) less critical to the welfare of the nmajority of local residents because of its very specialist nature. Withington on the other hand mattered to every last resident in the constituency. And they remember it.

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