One of our candidates has been attacked while out campaigning, although being a Conservative candidate appears to be incidental to the attack. Fortunately the candidate in question is shaken but not hurt, but I am absolutely furious and I hope that the police catch the culprits quickly.
It is very sad that there are parts of our City where we cannot walk down residential streets free from the fear of being set upon.
Slow On The Uptake
Labour MP and junior Minister Angela Smith announced she was resigning over the abolition of the 10p tax rate… and then changed her mind and decided she quite liked the ministerial salary after all.
Quite aside from the bizarre dithering, Ms Smith is a Treasury Minister (PPS to Yvette Cooper, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury) and yet it appears to have taken her a whole year to realise that abolishing the lowest tax band means those on the lowest incomes pay more - the changes were announced by Gordon Brown in his last budget in 2007. What sort of people do we have running the country now?
Incidentally, a number of people have raised the 10p band on the doorstep. Labour have taken their core voters for granted since they got into Government, and now they are hitting them where it hurts in the pocket. Labour voters who have been let down have the chance to send a message to Gordon Brown on 1st May - by voting Conservative and evicting their hopeless Labour Councillors.