Since
we last blogged, there's been a lot of bad blood flowing around Tameside Labour Party. Our old friend, the supreme fuckwit that is Sean Parker-Perry, has been
doing his best to smear his rival, fellow
Councillor Jonathan Reynolds. We'd have loved to have had the scoop on this story, and we would have thought that Parker-Perry would have learned something from his
stupid little games on the internet which
lost him his job some time ago. Nevertheless, his accusations look interesting and deserve to be followed up...
In the meantime, reports of the struggle facing Reynolds to get himself onto the local PPC candidate list have reached a national level. The Times has reported that
Peter Mandelson intervened to ensure Reynolds was re-admitted to the candidate list, after initially being excluded, which provoked accusations of this being a breach of the rules.
So for the Stalybridge and Hyde Labour Party, now there's a choice between a
self-publicist GP with some
wacky views about the NHS, a
think-tanker, a
Blairite, a
racist former immigration minister and little Jonny, the local (from the North East) wanabee lawyer, a party hack.
And now
look what the wind has blown into our hands. Above you'll see Reynolds' campaign leaflet for the PPC post. Look more closely and you'll find the following:
Local Transport - we need significant investment in transport in Stalybridge and Hyde, and especially in the Mottram Bypass.
Should anyone take Reynolds seriously on this issue? We think not. After all, as we pointed out at the time, Reynolds joined both his fellow Councillors in Longdendale in
utterly failing to make an appearance at the Public Inquiry. He clearly does not have the courage of his convictions, failing those in favour of a bypass in his constituency who were looking to him to represent their views.
But he now expects them to take him seriously again!
Regular readers will know better than to expect us to show the time of day to
any politicians, of
any political stripe (even those campaigning against the bypass, who don't stand a cat in hells chance anyway) . We're not going to go into why, as there's plenty of other articles we've posted that expound our politics. But clearly, an outsider would be a more effective choice for Stalybridge and Hyde Labour Party - because they wouldn't have a track record of
utter failure in representing them over the Bypass.
**UPDATE - the Times is now claiming that the think-tanker and the racist have pulled out, because of Mandelson's intervention.
