Jon Cruddas and Chuka Umunna go local on the Tories
James Forsyth 6:53pm
Now is not a good time--politically--to be an incumbent. The economic realities mean that tough choices have to be made: services cut, taxes raised or both. So it is a clever move by Jon Cruddas and Chuka Umunna to set up a website, Tory stories, scrutinising the work of Tory councils. It also plays to the message that many in the Labour party, but notably not Gordon Brown and Ed Balls, want to push: Cameron and a few top Tories might have changed the rest of the party hasn’t. The Tories are keen to show that they will not balance the budget on the backs of the low paid, note how the million lowest paid public sector workers are exempt from their proposed public sector pay freeze. But if Cruddas and Umunna can consistently turn the spotlight on cases where Tory councils appear to be doing that they could cause Cameron some problems.
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Dennis Churchill
December 27th, 2009 7:13pm Report this commentMaybe someone should set up a Website costing the various Commissars employed by Labour Councils to “Co-ordinate” us into “Diversity” and “Equality”. Then we have translation costs, street signs into Bengali, such as in Tower Hamlets...
Yow Min Lye
December 27th, 2009 7:38pm Report this commentChuka Umunna? Wasn't that a battlefield in the American Civil War?
Irene
December 27th, 2009 7:49pm Report this commentFor God's sake get a grip!
In2minds
December 27th, 2009 7:55pm Report this commentCruddas stands up for the poor, good they need all the help they can get after all these years of Nulabour. However, some say Cruddas sends his son to a school even posher than the one Tony Blair selected for his children. So is Cruddas in the same league as Blair and Diane Abbott?
aristeides
December 27th, 2009 9:14pm Report this commentSeen the website. It's just extremely boring with far too much detail and thousands of links to council websites and parochial news sheets. People will wonder how they have so much time to do something so tedious on top of ruining the country. If they can be bothered to look, that is.
Stevie Walker
December 27th, 2009 9:15pm Report this commentIs this all ZanuLabour have to campaign on? The scary, evil Tories? Do they not have anything positive to say at all?
Bonzodog
December 27th, 2009 9:40pm Report this commentMercifully it is so badly designed as to be unreadable.
I guess that we will be seeing Tower Hamlets there. Oh hang on .. thats not Tory ....
Dennis Churchill
December 27th, 2009 9:49pm Report this commentIn2minds
Yes Cruddas represents Dagenham but lives in Notting Hill and sends his children to schools there rather than in Dagenham.
No wonder the British National Party have won seats on Barking and Dagenham Council and Nick Griffin looks set to give Lady Margaret Hodge a run for her money (lots of money as she is an Oppeheimer) in the neighbouring constituency of Barking.She,of course, lives in Islington.
Holly ......
December 27th, 2009 10:29pm Report this commentDoes this mean that the Labour party will fight their election campaign pleading with the electorate to,'judge Labour on their record'?
Here's hoping.
Nicholas
December 27th, 2009 10:41pm Report this commentKind of sick when a party in power for 13 years can only campaign on what the opposition party in local government gets up to. Nothing left to say about themselves I guess. Even so I bet it's as nothing compared to Labour/Left quango and other lobby group/fake charity shennannigans.
Amadeus Plonquer
December 28th, 2009 1:26am Report this commentTory Stories? How about Labour Failure?
JohnPage
December 28th, 2009 10:21am Report this commentIt shouldn't take a local Tory activist long to start getting some numbers out for each Labour borough.
Drip feed, keep the waste in the local news.
john
December 28th, 2009 11:07am Report this commentThey'll be preaching to the converted. Its tiny readership will be dyed in the wool lefties.
anne allan
December 28th, 2009 1:51pm Report this commentI thought Chuka Umanna was the result of too many beers and curries.
tom t
December 28th, 2009 4:07pm Report this comment"Yes Cruddas represents Dagenham but lives in Notting Hill and sends his children to schools there rather than in Dagenham."
Very true. And the school he sends his kid too is definitely no 'bog standard comprehensive' - rather a grammar school by other (catholic) means.
Nomenclatura - schools, flats, pensions etc all sorted out for the equality brigade.
THX1138
December 28th, 2009 4:36pm Report this commentThe Tory councils outsorcing 5bn of key services to IBM is going to give them plenty of material. When did any of these Government outsorcing/IT projects ever work?
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