Alan, If you really think that it was John Leech's election campaign that won the seat, then you are deluding yourself. You're not listening to what people like Emma are saying. You're only listening to what you want to hear, and you're calling anything else "offensive" because you don't like it. When Emma says she is fed up with you and your colleagues "slagging off" JL, she is 100% right. Because that is exactly what it sounds like. You brush aside the fact that Emma, like my wife, my daughter. me, and many of my neighbours plus a VERY large number of other people in this constituency , went into the poll booths with a favourable impression created by a lot of basic hard work over several years by John Leech as a councillor. You might mot like that, but it's a fact. Throughout all of these contributions from you and your colleagues since the website was set up, there has been not one single positive word from any of you about John Leech. You're trying to paint him as the devil incarnate. How on earth do you think that makes your party look to the voters of South Manchester? THis guy, I would remind you, has managed to get a swing of 18% in his favour from one of the most highly educated electorates in Britain, and you are trying to claim that he somehow bamboozled his way into Parliament by subterfuge with a few leaflet drops just before the election.Rubbish. It's silly, plain silly. And I do not mean that offensively. If you lose a contest, then sit back and analyse why, and do it honestly, coolly. It's a truism that oppositions don't win, it is incumbents that lose. And that is exactly what you did. You lost. Swallow that pill, and start asking where you failed. Ask yourself where Labour's shortcomings are rather than kidding yourselves that the electorate got it wrong. They didn't . Labour did. Only then will you learn how to succeed next time.

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