Tuesday 15 February 2011

journalism's finest

secondary modern boy from the Kent coalfields Andy Murrill, ed. His Master's Voice (Reading Evening Post) has excelled himself this time.  Here is a "story" about the resignation of Cllr Warren Swaine from the coalition front bench.  It happened last week, was reported then, and nothing has happened since to warrant a new story.  But they have repeated the story anyway, just adding in some further allegations of racism they didn't print the first time.  Why, Mr Murrill?  Who told you to do this?  It is hardly a secret in Reading political circles that it was the Labour group calling for Swaine's head on a charger, and it is clear that it was the Labour group boys who briefed HMV and demanded and got a second story. The interesting thing is why.  Nothing to do with Swaine's remarks, whether they were racist or not (IMHO Chuka Umunna MP actually is a vacuous muppet), but to do with his blog, which has done more than most recently to expose corruption at the heart of the Labour group.  Der, silly boys.  If Swaine is front bench in the coalition administration he is bound by collective responsibility.  If he is a backbencher he can say what he likes.  They should, as one senior figure in Reading politics wrote to me the other day, be very afraid.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

And they've been bombarding Get Reading with their outraged comments too, using aliases of course. Pathetic and more than a little spiteful. What an odious bunch they are. It's obvious to anyone that "Ted Grant" is a Councillor.

Anonymous said...

Is he? How do you know? He could be an ex-Councillor...

Martin S MP, Reading said...

You are just so terribly mean about Chuka.

It really is a dreadful thing when people think you're an airhead just because of your good looks. I should know!

Anonymous said...

I think you are right Jane because they have dropped the bigger story
about the funding of the unions.

In a post on Get Reading 'Ted Grant' describes himself as a
member of the socialist party.

That narrows things down a bit.

Anonymous said...

Aaah well, then it's obvious who it is then...

Darren said...

Speaking about "corruption at the heart of the Labour group", how many properties does Tony Page own? And how many of these have been acquired through ill gotten gains whilst Labour were in charge of the council?

Was said...

He has declared an interest in the freehold of the Castle Hill property.

Declaration of Interest

Anonymous said...

The fact that people like Tony Page are still prominent in the Reading Labour Party says it all really.

The likes of him and his cohorts messrs Lovelock, Ruhemann, Ennis
and co have to go before Labour can be credible again.

Anonymous said...

Darren: Funny you should say that. TP is not the only one in the Labour Group with more than one property in Reading...always wondered how this was bar them being property tycoons! Socialism at its best..