I’m going to spend most of this post annoying my Labour supporting readers, so I might as well start by annoying the Tories. The worst election for the Tories was not 1997, but 1992. They needed a time in opposition and the win in 1992 convinced them that they were invincible. The lost their humility, and when you lose that you start to lose a grip on your humanity as well.
Labour’s at that point. If they scrape a win this time they could finish their party off They have lost their humility and humanity and are not fit to direct a parking bay let alone the country.
This little gem from Ipswich Spy shows why we need to have another turn of the wheel. Labour clearly think government is a freehold rather than a leasehold position. Not in a democracy it ain’t.
Let’s miss the brouhaha about whether the Labour were at a group meeting or leafleting, it’s perfectly possible to be doing both. It’s hardly relevant.
What is that there seems to be no humility in their response. It is possible for both sides to make mistakes. The Labour councillors for Bridge ward clearly made a mistake here. Three councillors aren’t needed at a group meeting when two could go. Councillor Philip Smart would have been told about this meeting as he was a member of the Ipswich Transport Society, as Ross seems to admit to Ipswich Spy (if either Ross or Ipswich Spy want to send a copy of the email I’d be glad to publish it here). Did he not see the importance, did he forget? Who knows. He made a mistake. He should have fessed up. I hope I would have been a big enough man to do so.
But no, it was spin instead.
Now they claim (or Ipswich spy claims that they claim) that members of the public could not go along to the meeting with First Eastern. But I was a member of the public. I was there. I paid £2.50 to get in. So did the Wherstead Road residents. What Alasdair Ross claimed was not true. It was the direct opposite of the truth. What is true is that the councillors made a mistake. It’s not the original mistake that kills you, it’s the cover up.
This is boring. Trying to spin your way out of what was clearly a stupid mistake born of complacency, a mistake that Labour has made time and again with Bridge is why we need a real alternative in Bridge. The fact that the Labour party from the lowliest councillor to the Prime Minister himself need to simply learn humility shows that they need a rest. It’s time to go in opposition and let the Tories get complacent, forgetful and rusty.
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