He's Just a Lib Dem Dirtbag 5: Another Bar-Storming Performance

Our stories yesterday drew attention to Paul Rowen's barn-storming performance, apparently in the bar if not the conference chamber, so let's make that bar-storming?, at Lib Dem Spring Conference.

Some enterprising members of the community distributed LOL images around the streets of Rochdale. Promised that the ongoing situation in Gaza was a huge priority for Rowen they have in fact found him to be a stay away slacker.

Let me count the slacking ways of this disgraceful lightweight:

1. Rowen missed the famous community meeting on the matter. Having accepted an invitation and promised faithfully to speak. He broke his promise. And failed to find an acceptable substitute - an opportunity other parties did not even seek. Political invitations are not transferable. Particularly not to idiots. Hennigan disgraced the party and the memory of the fat tool Sir Cyril Smith by trying to gate crash where he knew categorically he was unwelcome. He was of course ejected.

2. Rowen's excuse was that he was speaking on the matter in Strasbourg the following Thursday. Needing a five day warm up troughing at the trough apparently. To hone his 57 words. And Rowen failed to speak in the relevant debate, breaching all sorts of niceties by dropping a mention to Gaza into a generic discussion instead. Was he even in attendance at the full debate on Gaza? We're not sure he was.

3. Rowen then used his tax-payer funded website to criticize a specific community organisation, albeit with Lib Dem connections, and in effect to declare war on Rochdale's muslim communities. He then punished them by failing to honour his accepted invitation to speak at their next public meeting.

4. Rowen finally failed abysmally to attend never mind speak at the lib Dem conference debate on this so-called priority issue. As he did so the lead story on his own website was about preserving the Rochdale way-of-life. Which translated means getting rat-arsed and falling over drunk. And, according to eye witnesses, they believed he missed this vital debate because he'd been partying way way too late and too hard and was in no fit state.

Due to gremlins the links in this post have been lost for the time being. I'll stick them back in later. Meanwhile this is your hourly Rochdale bulletin. More in 60 minutes.