Bartley Willcock: Luncheon Club on Adjoining Tables at Chorlton Cafe

Always great to see Bartley on UAF and Anti-War duty and out and about in Whalley Range and Chorlton and much farther afield. This lunch time we put the world to rights over Liver and Bacon with Boiled (Me) and Special Breakfast with No Fried Slice (He) at Rupert's greasy spoon cafe just off the railway bridge.

Today we finally and completely sorted out the Middle East; Socialist Action, Respect and MAB; Homophobia and Equality; Pensions and Pensioners; the Empty Opportunism of Lib Dems; Hazel Blears and Hope Hospital; the Hateful Tories; his personal friend but political foe Tommy Walsh (Old/New Labour); and everything but the price of fish.

Well actually we didn't sort much out but we had a very enjoyable chat. And Bartley told me a not very impressive story about Labour tactics to undermine Respect's councillor in Preston. Last five paras. Is this true? Sounds like a smear. Are these revolutionaries cut out for electoral activity?

Sticks and stones and all that ... never ever ever heard any porkies from Respectees fortunately!

Bartley is looking forward to a Pensioners' Parliament in Blackpool on May 8th. It seems that while Tories and Fib Dems are sending top notch specialists on pensions the Labour juniors have chickened out and had a whip round to send Hazel Blears instead. They'll surely not heckle Hazel? They'd have to be Nuts to do that.