The name calling and bickering simply doesn't move the debate forward. It's just self-perpeuating drivel. Patently, both sides are 'guilty' bedfellows on a local and national basis, so much that they could trade insults until this server blows. Big yawn. The name calling masks any 'good' you do for this area. Maybe that's deliberate.
Come the next election, do I vote for the MP who so unequivocally lied on the Christie Hospital, or the party who took us blindly into a futile war which has fuelled world instability, simply because its leader was loved up over Boss Hogg's younger brother?
Lucy Powell has every chance of getting this seat if she simply distances herself from the gobs and losers. It's a team game chaps. You're the annoying kid in the playground who wants to keep the ball and badly show off new tricks, only to trip up in the first tackle.
And as for Mr Leech? Well, the McDonalds episode suggests the clumsy failings of a naive, and not-for-parliament politician. Fine, he's here and there (and rightly so) backing community campaigns, but methinks he's a bawler and not an influencer. I don't see much change in this area under his command. When Bradley was around, we had new schools and money for the doctors surgery. You saw a tangible sign of having an MP, not a sh*t-load of patronising nonsense through your door 2-3 weeks before an election.
(NB: to newsletter editors. I know it's a bin. You don't need your candidate to point to it.)
Dave's asked a rational question aimed at anyone interested in a healthy, respectful, witty debate. If you want to bicker, why not pick up your handbags and have it out...maybe outside The Christie Hospital.
You could be guaranteed of a pathetically slow police response and a ride home on a slow, stinky, clapped-out bus with some 14 year olds from the local high school smoking a spliff. (Christ, I've turned into Peter H)
Alan's right on Iraq. Stable doors and all that, but it's a heinous, precedent-setting war, the real motive for which remainds blindly. But you don't abandon ship and let the carnage proper begin.
Sedgeley Park and co. If this sort of attitude/aproach prevails on the doorsteps you knock (but why don't Labour ever knock on mine?), maybe a tour of duty in another Trafford (where your expertise would undoubtedly turn the seat red) would be in Labour's best interests.
Mike. Your party is pathetically short of substance, moral conviction and weeks when they don't piggyback on non-political community efforts. Oh..and Yasmin Zazala. Is it true that she was last seen doing summer season with The Krankies in Skegness?
