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Phil Woolas MP: Silly Me, Does Have History on the Two Homes Politics
Many years ago, in my penultimate year as a registered student, Phil Woolas was General Secretary at Manchester University Students' Union.
He signed my Life Membership card.
So, obviously, I would not trust him as far as I could throw him.
However many amusing speeches he gives on pummelling the Lib Dems for their flirting with race and their having no discernible politics.
And however many slap up sausage and mash suppers he may introduce for the Association of Labour Councillors.
However I am astonished to discover that, belying my assurance, he does sadly have history for using an opponent's multiple addresses against them. Which does not mean that he would talk with the Mail on Sunday, heaven forfend, or grass up Jon Cruddas.
In the case of Oldham Lib Dem PPC "Tony" aka Richard Anthony Dawson he accused Lib Dems of photoshopping banners, giving totally incorrect names like "Tony" on nomination papers, and of course having an address of convenience - in Dobcross rather than Dagenham - which was a ghost house with whitewashed windows. On a windswept moor, near a Local Shop for Local People.
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You can rely on Phil to dish the dirty truth on the LD franchise. Every constituency should have one.
Not a LD franchise? Can't seem to find the cuttings for their dirty Leeds Road Mosque campaign. If anyone has the links or the race-row-rousing Focus Election Specials I'd be glad to see them.
Slightly off topic. Did "Tony" Dawson's chums in the Lib Dems actually seize power and "scrap student fees"? Or was this some kind of ridiculous promise on which they could not deliver?
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