Making the best of a bad situation (1)
Being oop North I haven't been campaigning in Ealing for the by-election. However, it seems the Tory candidate is doing all the campaigning for me, by donating £4800 at a Labour party fundraising dinner only last month.
No, I don't understand either. Presumably this means Tony Lit is either a) Dishonest [can't have told the selection committee about this, can he?] or b) foolish, or possibly c) unsure; none of which are attributes I'd welcome in a prospective MP.
Nevertheless, the Tory attack-blogs have gone on the case. Take Iain Dale, for instance:
I doubt whether the donation has lost him a single vote. Indeed, the blanket media coverage has raised his profile enormously - his picture is everywhere in today's papers. You could easily argue that the coverage is a boost. Personally, I cannot imagine why any Conservative would want to attend a Labour Party event, but we should remember it was an Asian business 'do', and a media organisation like Sunrise presumably has good reason to be impartial in its political relations.
Of course, if Tony Lit really did have good reason to be impartial in his political relations, I'm not sure standing for Parliament as a Conservative candidate is the best way to go about it. And the picture is of him with Tony Blair, why would that be any good...? Still, defending the indefensible is always a thankless task.
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