Originally posted @ 10:15 pm, Sun 23rd Jan 2011
On the way to canvassing in the Meadows estate of Nottingham, I heard Nick Clegg on BBC Radio 5 saying how the Lib Dem manifesto did say how they didn’t like Strategic Health Authorities and Primary care Trusts. This following Caroline Spelman on BBC’s Question Time saying they wanted to re-organise the NHS on page 47 of the Conservative party manifesto. Once again, I wonder if manifestos get any serious analysis during a General Election campaign. And if both coalition parties felt like that, why did the coalition agreement say no re-organisation of the NHS?
Nick Clegg also taunted Alan Johnson on numbers, overlooking his mistake on the value of pensions. Very smug.
Less to be smug about on the doorstep, as again we met real anger on the doorsteps over the cuts. One particular instance over cuts to services aimed at getting people into work. Canvass returns continue to reflect the change.
The Lib Dems’ leaflet doesn’t exactly celebrate the Conservative-led government. It says vote for AV. And that’s it.
The leaflet does, without acknowledging it, celebrate a new power for councils to clear blocked drives which was in essence delivered by the last Labour government. (I’m intrigued to know if this is one of the law’n’order initiatives that Lib Dems voted against, but again I’ll have to check.)
The local material on the front says there a parking problem on a couple of local streets and that they’ve got the Highways Agency involved. “The Highways Agency”. That would be the Highways Agency who look after motorways and certain designated truck roads! Go figure. But it gets worse cos it says “We have worked together to find a solution” when no such solution is identified and in fact I don’t think a solution has been found (another Lib Dem let down).
Whatever, no defence of the Conservative-led government’s decision’s to cancel the multi-million pound renewal of the Meadows estate. A massive Lib Dem let down.
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