| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Local Labour Party Associations under "Special Measures"!! | |
| Posted by: | David Giles | |
| Date/Time: | 28/07/13 22:17:00 |
| The Conservative Party is the only effective opposition to the Labour Party in the London Borough of Hounslow and has been since the foundation of the Borough. It is futile for people like Phil Andrews to assert otherwise. The Labour Party is a national political party and as such has to be opposed by another national political party i.e. the Conservative Party. Residents and amenity groups have an important role to play and their involvement in important matters such as planning is to be welcomed. However, decisions on such matters are made by democratically elected ward Councillors and not by residents groups. Conservative Councillors have very many years campaigned for and demanded transparency in the planning processes of Labour dominated Hounslow Council. Abuses have been exposed and Labour called to account. Conservative Councillors represent wards right across the Borough from Chiswick in the East to Feltham in the West and can rely on support from our Conservative MP, Mary Macleod, our Great London Assembly Member, Tony Arbour, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and Government Ministers when necessary. Residents and amenity groups are and should be non-political if they wish to be regarded as representative of the residents of the areas they claim to represent of all party political persuasions and none. If members of residents or amenity groups wish to stand for election to the Council they should do do as candidates of the established political parties or else set up political parties of their own. Phil Andrews cannot continue to have it both ways. He cannot claim to be the representative of a non-political community group which purports to represent the residents of Isleworth while at the same time standing for election to the Council, pursuing a political agenda of his own and constantly attacking the Labour and Conservative parties and democratically elected Councillors. Phil Andrews is a politician. For him to claim otherwise is simply untrue. |