Paul Rowen MP: What Was Paul Rowen MP Asked?

We're hearing that the thrusting young Rochdale Liberal Democrat Mohammed Shafiq (right with Cyril Smith in 2005), best known as a regular TV and media pundit on behalf of the Ramadhan Foundation, is being deliberately held back by Paul Rowen MP and his henchman agent Dave Hennigan.

We're also hearing that a recent question from a local Lib Dem activist stunned the worst MP in Rochdale's history - that's Paul Rowen - into spluttering silence, if that's possible. A very direct and very difficult question no doubt. Just what was that question?

There's no love lost between Rowen, Hennigan and just about anyone else, in or outside the party. Rowen and his right-arm strong arm David Hennigan, the famous intoxicatee and office kipper, have for example persistently blocked Shafiq's political progress in the local Lib Dem party, along with many other young Asians, while protecting useless old blow-hards from de-selection.

In one ward selection they apparently ruled out five or six votes that would have seen one of those blowhards fall to an up-and-coming community activist and sub-Post Master on a quite spurious and deeply unfair basis.


While we're asking questions of the Rochdale Lib Dems - It Never Rains But It Pours - can Rowen, Hennigan or the Lib Dem group please explain:

1. Why did Cllr Barbara Todd (Lib Dem) get away with an apology rather than a sacking for balling out two councillor colleagues simply trying to exclude a rival councillor from a community meeting and making a snide public remark excluding him from having a quiet conversation speaking in any language other than English?

2. Why does Rochdale's worst ever MP persist in pretending he is Cyril Smith Mark II? Unlike the old pro-hanging, asbestos-share-owning, bare-buttock-slapping, advancing-the-cause-of-liberalism local hero, Mr Rowen is yet to make a single decent speech in parliament.

3. Why does the heroic Sir Cyril use a recent Rochdale Observer interview to slam the Lib Dem council repeatedly by implication over the dying Town Centre, the failing regeneration plans, the ridiculous private market fees and so on and so forth?

4. Why given their failures and shortages of funds are they now proposing to kick dozens of hard working Council Officers out of the grandest suite in the Town Hall, near the bar incidentally, chucking Rochdale people's money at it like it's going out of fashion, and claiming these rooms for their own preening palace?

5. Is it true that Sir Cyril had no truck whatsoever with Rowen and wanted AN Other as his successor? And who was that specially favoured young man?

And here's one for the Rochdale Observer:

6. Why are your pages not skewering Rowen and his chums on a daily basis? Could this be in any way related to the fact that Deputy Editor Chris Lloyd is brother-by-marriage to bullocking Rochdale councillor, Sheik's advisor and Oldham and Saddleworth PPC Elwyn Watkins?