Michael Foot

R.I.P.

no confidence

in Cllr Hartley - a motion is to be moved to this effect. Because he either lied to the council. Or misled it by not checking his facts. Interestingly this was about the council's actions, or lack of them, to help stop bullying. Which is something Cllr Hartley knows a lot about.

A fair wind for the motion, I trust. All present and voting.

Cllr Hartley couldn't even be bothered to pay his car tax while he was a parliamentary candidate, leaving his car to add to the many untaxed cars littering the streets of Newtown, remember.

In the name of God, go.

some questions not answered

you might have seen that no comments have appeared on the post below - that is because none received were fit to print, though there were a lot of them, the most printable one said in part "damned impertinence lady". the rest were savage, some pornographic, all angry, and most apparently from a few Reading Labour boys. Get over yourselves, say I.

some questions to answer

1. Why was Anneliese either not invited to meet Gordon in Reading East yesterday, or if she was she was not seen in photographs, unlike Cllr Page?

2. Did Gordon Brown and Alan Johnson write to the Reading East MP to inform him of their impending visit to his constituency, or did they, as ministers have regularly in the past, rely on briefing from Mr Salter to the effect that the whole of Reading is his constituency?
update: no they didn't, according to the Reading East MP in His Master's Voice, although Salter was invited to the meeting in Reading East.

3. Why is there no mention of the visit on the websites of Reading Labour, South-East Labour, Nasty Naz or Anneliese at the time of writing, some 24 hours after the visit?
one fraudulent tweet so far, posted by Nasty 24 hours after he said it was.

4. Did anyone from the Labour Party talk to Sky News, who last night had an item about Reading West as a key target seat but in the absence of Labour half-filled the item with quotes from David Cameron?

5. Did Gordon and Alan visit Reading West, if so what did they do there and if not why not?

Answers please.

she's back in the attic!

well, where else? Anneliese I mean, been locked up again in Singleton-White's attic. The only coverage of Gordo's visit to Reading today was in His Master's Voice, and I could not see any members of the public present, just a phalanx of police. Oh and Cllr Tony Page. But not Anneliese. It is almost as if, ever since Reading East selected its Labour candidate, there have been two candidates. The Official candidate, Anneliese Dodds, who is rarely seen in public, and who is placed firmly at the back of any photo-opportunity. She was not seen shaking Gordo's hand, in fact was not seen at all. But Tony Page was, oh yes. He is the Continuity candidate. He is the one the Reading Labour boys want to stand in the election of their dreams. He is the one they would have selected after 2005, but instead they discovered to their utter horror that the candidate was going to have to be a GIRL. We thought we'd put a stop to GIRLS being allowed to stand for election, they said to each other. Poor loves. I wonder if Gordo went on to Reading West to do something for Nasty Naz. I wonder if Salter turned up, or was he too busy messing about in boats. I wonder why the Reading Evening Post featured Tony Page so prominently in its coverage and left out the parliamentary candidate. I wonder.

update. Sky has been in Reading today and interviewed Alan Johnson in the Town Hall, mentioning that Labour needs to win Reading West. Er, that's it. They probably thought they were in Reading West, having been given the Salter map of Reading.

el gordo goes to a marginal

Reading, to be precise. Do not know if he went to Reading West this morning, the pic was taken in Reading East. If they only went to Reading East they would not have needed to inform Salter. Behind Gordo and Alan Johnson is Cllr Tony Page, failed Labour candidate in Reading East in 2005, cannot see if Anneliese is there, she is usually kept firmly out of sight.

update: Silly Boys' and Anneliese's websites still silent on the visit. Rob Wilson, incumbent conservative MP for Reading East since 2005, straight in with an email to all those signed up to his e-newsletter, with questions he thought Gordo should have answered. The meeting was of course not open to the general public. We are told.

fox hunters support the Tories

well, given that it appears that the Tories have said they would repeal the ban, it would hardly be surprising that a large majority of those who like hunting foxes with dogs support the Tories. Nor that they would turn out to help that party when an election is looming. So what is Reading Labour getting so upset about? There's a grainy photograph, apparently taken on a not-very-good mobile phone, which shows, er, some people in a car park. They are hunt supporters, we are told. Apparently you can tell they are hunt supporters by the cut of their jeans. Or that they look a bit funny. Or something. And these hunt supporters have been turning up in said car park to be given leaflets to deliver in Reading West.

So. Political party uses volunteer supporters to deliver leaflets. Shock. Who does Reading Labour think should be delivering the Tories' leaflets? The council? Oh sorry, that has already been done. At least Mr Salter told us it had and that "his T&G men" delivered his election leaflets in Reading Borough Council vans.

On the subject of elections, we have the regionals here on 14th and 21st March. And I have no vote in them. Grrr. There was a rally yesterday, with red flags and hammers and sickles. Bring back the old certainties, that's what I say. Bring me Stalin and St. Paul (That's enough. Ed.)