Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Cameron: It was a local decision to put "David Cameron's Conservatives" on Ealing Southall ballot paper

On Today this morning, David Cameron said that it was a "local decision" to put "David Cameron's Conservatives" on the ballot paper in Ealing Southall. That is strange because I have read local Conservatives criticising that decision and it has been widely reported that Grant Shapps, hardly a local Ealing Southall man, pushed to have such nomclementure on the ballot paper.

David Cameron underpinned his statement by saying boldly that he "believed in localism" - that is why he allowed the local Ealing Southall Tories, he says, to put "David Cameron's Conservatives" on the ballot paper.

It is strange, then, that his "belief in localism" didn't go as far as letting the local party choose their own candidate!

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