Thanks Thomas, and Adele
Peter H - please respond here to the issue of whether John Leech should have stood up alongside the craven hypocrite Willie Rennie - who is part of the PR company that represents a cluster bomb maker and has visited their factory as an MP - to call for cluster bombs to be banned. When he visited he provided warm words of encouragement about their excellent global reputation while all the while signing EDMs and asking questions and spewing crap against their products.
Go and write on another item or start one if you want to tell Labour how to campaign etc etc or assert without any argument or illustration that John is "a good local MP". What he really is - is a good self-PR-man above everything else, thrashing around putting his name to things like a madman (which I'd better add is a turn of phrase rather than a diagnosis). He is no doubt putting in a lot of work to get re-elected i.e. campaigning for himself and his local lackeys. But he is a liar. He has poor judgement. And he is someone who is regarded by his parliamentary colleagues of all parties as a lightweight.
Ideas for new items:
1. Two probable Lib Dem winnable seats have come up in Cornwall because of their chief tactician Matthew Taylor's decision to retire after 20 years (one of the key milestones for pensions gravy?) for family reasons, and another through boundary changes. Should John Leech, whose written questions include at least two on that area (on smuggling and firearms), throw his hat in the ring and go for the easy life by the seaside?
2. Clearly other parties are choosing their candidates and deciding their strategies at the moment. K Bradley (Karen) will not be standing again as having finally kissed the last of the Tory vote here goodbye she has amazingly been rewarded by a better prospect (Staffs Moorlands). What kind of person and what kind of local issues should the Tories, Greens and Labour choose to have the best chance of doing well against La Leech?
