The difference is, of course, that Simon has not been elected to public office. He isn't sitting in a position of authority bestowed upon him by the votes of thousands of people who believed him to be upright and honest.To put it rather bluntly, it doesn't really matter what Simon says.Arguably, Simon's application could quite reasonably have been declined on the basis of his true actions. Instead, and not for the first time, members of the local party have felt the need to tell lies even when the truth would probably have sufficed, in this case to their own party colleagues."Your application for full membership of the Labour Party was submitted to Brentford and Isleworth Constituency Labour Party for endorsement. We have now heard from the Constituency Labour Party and have to inform you that they have refused your application on the grounds that you have made untruthful and damaging comments about a local Labour councillor and that during the General Election in May you openly urged voters not to vote for Labour's candidate in Brentford and Isleworth, Ruth Cadbury".I urge anybody who, like me, believes that honesty still has a part to play in local politics to visit Simon's Facebook site and take a look through his timeline at the many posts he made in support of Ruth Cadbury during the election period. Likewise take a look through his tweets on Twitter during the same period. Am I the only person who understands that if our elected representatives are capable of telling lies to their own party colleagues then they are more than capable of telling lies in their dealings with the rest of us?And yet all the so-called "opposition" have to offer the debate is "poor Ruth"! Shameful.
Phil Andrews ● 3839d