Below is an apology from Labour's Election Agent, Ben Zielinski
"As Labour agent for this year's local elections, my Tory counterpart has drawn to my attention that we made a mistake in our recent Reading Banner newspaper, which is being delivered by volunteers to households across Reading.
In an article entitled "Conservatives scrape the barrel", we commented on the number of Tory candidates who live outside Reading borough, and therefore do not pay Reading Council Tax or use services provided by the Borough Council. We said that the Tory candidate in Park ward, Cllr Hussain, "lives miles away in Charvil but qualifies ... because he owns houses as a landlord". We acknowledge that this is incorrect in that Mr Hussain actually lives in Earley, near Winnersh Triangle, rather than Charvil. We apologise to him for getting the part of Wokingham he lives in wrong.
We have also noticed that Conservative's Church ward candidate, former banker Mr Poland, lives in exclusive Beenham, rather than in neighbouring Midgham as we stated. The Battle ward Tory candidate, we omitted to note, also lives outside Reading in Lower Earley. Their Minster candidate is from Shinfield, as correctly said in the article.
On behalf of Reading's Labour candidates, all of whom live in Reading borough, I am happy to correct these facts".
Ben Zielinski
Election Agent for the Labour Party candidates in Reading borough
Very good,
ReplyDeletePolitics in Reading Berkshire seem to be based upon who can stab who in the back most often - shame on you all.
ReplyDeleteLabour has always relied on attacking the messenger and not addressing the message. any apology from Labour is not worth the paper it's not written on.