JohnBM:Liberal

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Bring on the purges

Whilst the post-election Tory on Calderdale Council infighting continues apace with Cllr. Nick Yates leaving to become an independent, the Halifax Courier gets down to the crux of the issue -

Should the council pay for the clothes bought by the partner of a defecting Tory because she wasn’t made deputy mayor’s consort?

Easy answer this one - NO.

Lessons of the day:

• Don’t assume you are going to be deputy mayoress until they put a chain round your neck
• Always keep your receipts
• Airing your dirty washing in public can make you look a tad petty

Halifax Courier: ‘Pay for my frock’, says Jenny who’s no longer deputy mayoress

The Tories are ditching yet another plank of traditional Tory policy. They no longer want more Grammar Schools and selection, and instead back Blair’s academies policy.

Cameron is yet again trying Blairwash the Tories ironically as the Blair era is coming to an end.

I smell blood on the carpet over this one – The hang ‘em high brigade will have a fieldday.

Just a few days (Thursday lunchtime) to go before the close of nominations for the Labour Party leadership coronation election.

Those of you have visited the Socialist Republic of Hebden Bridge Trades Club, will be familiar with left-winger John McDonnell when he visited the Stubbing Wharfe pub a couple of months ago (When I say familiar I  mean you may have heard of him).

Classic quotes of that night’s “public” meeting include:

“John Rhodes, Chair of the Hebden Bridge Labour Party … gave a very effective speech (later described by Mike Wood MP as “brilliant”) where he pointed how, after 10 years of a Labour Government, poverty and inequality had increased greatly.”

“Mike Wood said, “I want my party back – if there is still a party left,” pointing out that membership had halved and the party was nearly bankrupt, being £20-£30 million in the red. He even wondered if the destruction of the Labour Party was “by design” ”

(source www.hebdenbridge.co.uk)

He needs another 18 nominations from a party which has increased poverty and inequality and is nearly bankrupt.

Accompanying whispers of splits in the local Hebden Bridge Labour Party, Labour’s Calder Valley MP, Chris McCafferty will not be one of the MPs back John McSomeone.