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Saturday, June 10, 2006

Unbiased Blogging

Mike Ion, the unsuccessful Labour PPC for Shrewsbury, has given a practical demonstration on the type of biased blogging he so dislikes. Presumably it was to show people what they shouldn't be doing because otherwise that would make him a hypocrite right?

BNP rescue Tory councillors

Thanks to Recess Monkey for drawing our collective attention to the 'arrangement' that has seen the Tories take control of Kirklees Council thanks to the support of the BNP. Kirklees Council's new Tory led administration was narrowly voted in at last Wednesday's annual meeting - with the Labour group abstaining and the Lib-Dems voting against it was the three BNP councillors who ensured the Tories gained power. Of course the Tories deny any formal deals with the useless, dim and lazy party (they would wouldn't they) but they are obviously desperate for power and will welcome support from any quarter.

So is this what 'Compassionate Conservativism' results in?

So, if Labour hadn't abstained would the Tories have needed the support of the BNP councillors? Surely it's just as likely that the Tories did a deal with the Labour councillors (bearing in mind that New Labour is more conservative than the Conservatives) to get them to abstain? It's this kind of trashy sleazy mud slinging that makes people lose faith in politicians and the whole politicial process.

Edit:
My comment along the lines of the above has yet to appear on the blog. Maybe he's down the pub watching football or maybe he's taking a leaf out of Bliar's book and ignoring any question he doesn't want to answer.