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We can't go on like this
David Cameron’s airbrushed posters were widely mocked when they were unveiled in January. Spoof posters proliferated on the web.
Now it’s my turn.
Check out my poster in the Buying the Election section of my main site. Just scroll down until you hit it.

Do we really need these tweets?
More inanities via twitter from the Lib Dem MP hopeful, Afzar Anwar, who tweeted in the early hours of 14 February: “If elected to Parliament (Ladbrokes 40-1) I will work with local businesses to try to remove unemployment from Pendle and make it a thing of the past.”
We wait for more details.
Unconstrained by the 140 word twitter limit.
Check out his periodic tweets on twitter.com/afzalanwarppc

Cut to the bone?
What is the truth about NHS spending in East Lancashire?
The official line from the Government is that NHS spending is continuing to rise but we are coming to the point where it will begin to plateau. We are told that cuts in health spending are not on the agenda.
Despite this, the Lancashire Telegraph reported on 28 January 2010 that our local primary care trust, NHS East Lancashire, was looking to make cuts of £46 million. Readers were told that plans for savings were still at an embryonic stage but quoted the finance director, Chris Dixon, warning that there could be “no sacred cows”.
So when is a “cut” not a cut? Clearly, if the upward trajectory of NHS spending is to level off – as it will – it has got to be managed. But blood curdling predictions of pain to come are wide of the mark…..continued

Silence
Still no sign of Islamic Help telling the world that they will not be able to convert Brierfield Mills into the Pendle Boarding School for Girls. There are still pages out there in cyberspace detailing the extent of the charity’s ambitions – a school for 5,000 Muslim girls.
Now that the Charity Commission has intervened, Islamic Help’s website should be telling people who donated money for the project that they will be getting their money back….  continued

Conservative quitters
The Conservative Party Treasurer, Michael Spicer, is to resign.  The Daily Telegraph reports today that the share price of his company “plunged by a fifth after it announced it was cutting its projected profits before tax from previous guidance of £311m-£347m to £295m-£315m.” Oh dear! Spicer is obviously neglecting the day job.
The Times reminds us that Lord Ashcroft is also quitting as Conservative Vice Chairman after the election.

40-1
How do Ladbrokes work out their betting odds for each constituency? It is a complete mystery to me.
The Conservative candidate here in Pendle, Andrew Stephenson, is 11-2 on which pretty much makes him a dead cert. And yet it doesn’t quite feel like that.
The result isn’t a foregone conclusion despite three years of saturation bombing of newspapers, leaflets and surveys financed by our friend in Belize, the tax exile and Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party, Lord Ashcroft…..   continued

His Master's Voice
Lord Tony Greaves is huffing and puffing again demanding I apologise to the silent and invisible Afzal Anwar, the Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate for Pendle (Ladbrokes odds: 40 to 1).
Greaves is angry and upset because I tabled a Commons motion on 18 January stating that Anwar’s law firm was responsible for the conveyancing of Brierfield Mills.  As everyone now knows,  the Birmingham based disaster relief charity, Islamic Help, planned to turn the Grade II listed building into a 5,000 place boarding school for Muslim girls.
We know Anwar met a trustee of Islamic Help to discuss their plans. Apparently, Anwar hoped the site would accommodate a relocated Ghausia Girls’ School - the tiny, independent 57 pupil school in Cross Street, Nelson where he used to be a governor. … continued

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