Re: The Questions Bill Wiggin Refuses to Answer
Bill Wiggin is going on in the Ledbury Reporter about how the electorate 'saw through the smear campaign' and reelected him.
Let's be honest, Bill. As the Tory party rose up across the nation to retake power, you managed to lose yourself 3000 votes in one of the safest Tory seats in the country.
That's hardly a resounding vote of confidence in you.
You talk of smear by some sections of the media. What smear? Truth about your dodgy expenses claims which, reportedly, are still being investigated? Truth about what you really think about the 'whinging' working man? Truth about you sticking your nose where it doesn't belong - in parish elections?
Considering the majority of the bottom feeding media supported your campaign by not telling their readers what you had been up to, and, in the case of the Hereford Journal, lying to its readers to make you look good - you should have won by even more votes.
If so many people weren't so apathetic and disillusioned by politics, you might have had a run for your deposit. As it is, people know, either consciously or intuitively that it doesn't really matter anyway, as politics is merely the icing on the cake of deceit. It's not government that runs the country, it's Tesco and their like.
Last edited by Ray X (2010-05-14 14:35:38)