| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Just what are the Tories and Junior Tories doing to our borough? | |
| Posted by: | Phil Andrews | |
| Date/Time: | 04/03/09 22:58:00 |
| I don't think I'm "a bit more right wing than the Tories" nor indeed "right wing" at all, but saying and possibly believing this provides Dave with a great deal of personal reassurance and comfort. It also helps him to justify, again to himself, the adversarial approach which his party has taken towards us as an organised community which has led directly to them losing control of Hounslow and been consigned to opposition for nearly three years. Without introducing an ideological dimension, there could be no logical explanation for New Labour's strategy. However he is being disingenuous when he says he does not speak for or represent his party. Until very recently he was an elected Labour councillor and a member of the Council's Executive. Every posting he makes is either a defence of the Labour Party or an attack on its opponents (or both). Under the circumstances it is not in any way unreasonable for forum users to assume that he is speaking for his party unless his party makes some kind of effort to come onto this site and disassociate itself from some of the outrageous and unsubstantiated remarks that he makes. There is one on this thread, for example, in which he alleges that ICG supporters have been abusive or insulting towards Asian members of his party. I have asked him to provide me with an example and he has replied "it is on the webcasts" (of the meetings in question). I have asked him to indicate which webcast, of which meeting. He won't, because he simply made it up, but neither will he come back onto this thread and apologise to forum users for misleading them. But what is more important is that neither will any member of his party come onto this forum to disassociate themselves from his remarks. This is why I believe that the local New Labour Party deliberately uses Dave Hughes to spread misinformation of this kind. It is the same kind of misinformation as its canvassers spread on the doorsteps at election times. In the case of this forum however, if all goes wrong, they can take a step back and claim that Dave is operating alone and it is "nothing to do with us guv!". And Dave, being Dave, is willing to play the useful idiot. |