Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Just what are the Tories and Junior Tories doing to our borough? | |
Posted by: | Robin Taylor | |
Date/Time: | 02/06/09 16:07:00 |
I wasn't aware that you "unallied" yourselves with the HRG in 1998. True, I remember you doing some public window dressing by taking them to task about how chummy they were with the Tories (which, in retrospect, now seems slightly ironic) but you remained essentially allied to one another for many years thereafter. I have a copy somewhere of the letter that the HRG secretary wrote endorsing your candidature on the eve of the 2002 local election. Please do not pretend that you did not know what they were about when they established themselves in 1996. They made it clear that they opposed the alleged preferential treatment given to Asian people (a complete myth, by the way) were rampantly anti-refugee and anti-asylum seeker and even talked about "strangling" equal opportunities. Arguably, their rhetoric often reflected that of the far right. The two people who were respectively chair and secretary of the HRG continue, to this day, to be among your most enthusiatic vocal supporters. The problem, as I see it, is this: you are quite happy to enjoy the support of those who think you have not really changed. Yet you demand that people with more progressive views accept that you have changed. It's called having your cake and eating it. Finally, regarding your claim that I cannot understand that it is possible to combine honest disagreement with basic human respect. Oh, but can I. I'm just interested in the fact that you still reserve your most severe scorn for the very same people that you were opposing when you were in the National Front. |