Flood of hard Brexiteers aims to change face of Tory party

Flood of hard Brexiteers aims to change face of Tory party Cabinet ministers who voted ‘remain’ have seen Eurosceptic membership increase in their constituencies More than half of grassroots Tory parties have been flooded with new members — many to … Continue reading →

The Yorkshire Post says: Can May afford to keep Smith? Chief whip’s future on the line

WITH THE Tory party appearing to have as many views on Brexit as MPs, Theresa May has done well to survive the political fallout from her Chequers summit a fortnight ago – many premiers would have been broken by the … Continue reading →

MP Charlie Elphicke ‘does not know what he is accused of’

A Conservative MP suspended by his party after “serious allegations” were made against him says he still does not know what he is accused of. Charlie Elphicke, a former party whip who has been the MP for Dover and Deal … Continue reading →

Conference exposes a party with few ideas and no future – John Healey

Conference exposes a party with few ideas and no future John Healey Tory conference promised little and delivered less. Ministers said that they heard the concerns of ordinary people in the aftermath of the election; the prime minister promised the … Continue reading →

Scenes from Manchester today

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Thought readers might like to see a flavour of the protest action, at the conservative party conference. .

Tories at war again

Top Tories rush to stop Boris bandwagon May expected to stand as Gove backs Johnson Michael Gove has endorsed Boris Johnson’s bid to be prime minister, setting up a “dream team” bid to replace David Cameron. The justice secretary called … Continue reading →

School academy plan ‘doomed to fail’, warns Blunkett

School academy plan ‘doomed to fail’, warns Blunkett Former education secretary baffled by proposals to reform school approach Former education secretary David Blunkett has warned that government plans to turn all schools into academies by 2022 are doomed to fail … Continue reading →

Exposed: Star Tory candidate and the EDL

Exposed: Star Tory candidate plotted with race thugs to stage fake EDL demo in cynical bid to win votes Star Asian Tory candidate planned fake English Defence League demo  Afzal Amin promised a salary to the EDL to win him … Continue reading →

The strange case of the disappearing Tory?

Dear Rotherham Politics,

Does the person Lynda.Donaldson@rotherham.gov.uk actually exist in reality or is he/she/it/they another figment of political imagination which floats around the junketing corridors down at Town Hall Towers just picking up their more than Sheffield City Councillor expenses and doing naff-all in return?

I know that Rovrum Tawreez are as rare as Rovrum Rockin Oss Dung but surely this is “Extracting the Urine” a little bit, innit?

The following response is what constantly returns whenever I include her/she/he/it/they in my regular enquiries of those who chose to put themselves forward for public office to serve the electorate on our behalf and run our town with our informed consent.

Yours Sincerely,
Don

On Sat, 14/7/12, postmaster@rotherham.gov.uk <postmaster@rotherham.gov.uk> wrote:

From: postmaster@rotherham.gov.uk <postmaster@rotherham.gov.uk>
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
To: Don Buxton
Date: Saturday, 14 July, 2012, 15:58

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

Lynda.Donaldson@rotherham.gov.uk

Tories slip up in Rotherham East!

Information is reaching Rothpol of a mistake made by Mohammed Suleman, of the Conservative Party.

He allegedly, distributed election literature without any information of the printer or promoter!

I do not have to remind readers that the ‘devil is in the detail’ when it comes to observing the sometimes arcane world of electoral law, and so it is in this case.

Complaints, by the way, go to the police rather than electoral services at RMBC, to save anyone a wasted phone call.

We would be very grateful to any reader who has received one of these, dodgy election addresses, for scanning it as a picture in jpeg format and sending it to us so that all readers can see it. Thanks to our anonymous source:

We are also informed that this may not be an isolated example, rothpols readers are also our eyes and ears!