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Tories keeping it clean
Reporter: Election 2011
Date online: 20 December 2010
CHAIRMAN of the Conservative Party, Baroness Warsi, joined the party’s Oldham East and Saddleworth candidate Kashif Ali in signing a pledge to keep their campaign clean.
During a visit to the borough, the baroness signed the Clean Campaign Pledge along with Kashif, which promises to refrain from personal attacks, make honest promises and fight a clean and positive campaign.
Baroness Warsi said: “After everything that’s happened in Oldham East and Saddleworth, the last thing we need now is underhand behaviour in our election campaign.
Kashif Ali said: “Signing this pledge will allow us to focus the debate on what really matters to people — issues of policy — rather than on unhelpful smears and personality politics.”
Comments
Pull the other one, it's got bells on!
We know what pledges are, "This is what we will do" once in, "That's what we will NOT do"
Are they going to be accountable to the pledge or this just another "vote grabbing" device........ I think the later!
So the Tory candidate is signing a pledge. I wonder if the Lib's will sign it too!!!
Not a good move to bring out the big guns when they are an affront to democracy.Why should Baroness Warsi have any influence on our lives when she was made a peer even though she lost the only election in which she ever stood in by 5000 votes. Her sex,ethnicity and religion surely played a part but the these are not attributes by which people should gain power or position
So does this mean that all of the Tory campaign leaflets will say "we pledge to cut police numbers, NHS spending, school building projects and local government grants and can guarantee to deliver even poorer public services than you currently enjoy - vote conservative!"
Actually Kashif is a nice guy - possibly too nice to be an MP - I'd choose him any day before Elwyn and so would many others - that's I think he's got a chance - but he's facing a good Labour candidate.
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We all know what happens to signed pledges. Elwyns leader set the standard on that one last time out.
By King Mo @ 20/12/2010 16:28:41