Cllr John"Two Jobs" Leech MP: Christie Hoax Will Keep Biting Leech on the Bum

This deserves a post of its own as well as being a footnote on another.

The councillor that didn't join Ashley's petulant walk out - at least the third in the job - was Cllr John Leech MP who either saw the alleged Nazi salute and actually has some standards, or he felt he needed to stay to defend himself against accusations of his Lib Dem hoaxing and fibbing.

Johnnie Two Jobs should really have been in Westminister that day ... where he would have heard accusations, you've guessed it, that he and his Lib Dems were hoaxing and fibbing. Rt Hon John Prescott MP, Health Minister Andy Burnham MP and Blackley MP Graham Stringer (and his EDM signers) have now placed their disgust at Johnny's Hospital Hoax on the record in Hansard and/or PIMS.

Leech had struck first with his own pre-emptive backside-covering EDM on the matter. I must say that it is remarkable that any Labour MPs signed it given the back story. Like the Manchester Withington electorate they were taken in by a slick fibber. Seven MPs signed both!

The Lib Dems were completely recovered from their existential angst about their alleged inner Nazi just ten minutes later when the traditional liggers' luncheon was served. Puddings before Principles!