PaulRogan

At last night's Council meeting a Tory Cabinet member (or members, not sure who wrote the speech) urged members to condemn the New Labour Government for being behind the proposed closure of many rural post offices.

It is fair to say that not many New Labour voters live in rural areas so this cost saving exercise would not lose Gordon many Westminster seats generally. Labour are traditionally not strong in the English Shire Counties. Parts of Calderdale and the key Calder Valley seat are an exception to this generality and Labour members sat quietly to endure the Tories political posturing on the matter.

As an English Democrat I was happy to support the motion to support rural England. However, I did feel it was a fine example of political duplicity coming from a group which locally has closed public toilets, closed rural libraries, closed village recycling points, closed off free stop and shop parking facilities and closed Brighouse swimming pool.

Do what we say and not what we do. No wonder the Tories are doing so badly in the polls.