Sister Lewis's 'William Hague moment'

We all remember former Tory leader William Hague sporting a baseball cap in a desperate bid to project a more youthful image. The stunt saw him pilloried in the press with one Daily Mail commentator suggesting he "looked like a child-molester on a day release scheme". Well, I thought the Tories had learned until this picture was sent to me from a member of my congregation. Here we have Sister Lewis of Leasowe taking fashion tips from his old boss - sporting his very own cap and shades! What does he look like?!!

Wallasey Tories & Cashcroft

Unlike her neighbours in Wirral West, Princess Leah has not, so far, accepted any big money donations from Lord Cashcroft to pay for her election campaign. So I say good on her for having the sense to not get involved in any shady deals with the Tory tax exile. Running an election campaign can be expensive business. I've seen glossy leaflets, flyer's, magazines and expensive mailings from the Princess - it seems she is throwing everything and the kitchen sink at Wallasey! But as she's not taking Cashcroft money how is it all being funded? I do hope it is from an honest source...

Labour favourites to win Wallasey

Labour remain odds on favourites to win Wallasey. William Hill put Labour as 1/5 red hot favourites while the Tories are on 4/1. I hear a few Tories have put £££ on a Princess Leah win but I've got a feeling they'll be begging for their money back after next week...

Princess Leah - you just keep on getting it wrong!

Dear me Princess Leah! You really should do your research or at least get your bag carrier, Sister Lewis of Leasowe to do it properly because you are getting so much wrong in this campaign. This week alone you have sent out a direct mail which had hundreds of voters in fits of laughter after you claimed that the NHS is safe with the Tories. Hilarious! Nobody believes you, you see most people in Wallasey remember what your party did to the NHS in the 1980s and 1990s - instinctively you Tories don't believe in the NHS. I think your mate, Tory MEP, Dan Hannan, exposed the hidden dark side of your party when he described it as a "60 year mistake". Meanwhile, you Tories locally opposed the massive rebuild and refurbishment of Victoria Central Hospital -instead you insisted on keeping the old, run down wards. Even now, it is your party that would end a patients right to see a specialist within two weeks if their GP suspects cancer. So stop pretending that your care about the NHS. You don't!

I also notice that on your blog you have called for local MP Angela Eagle to "take a pay freeze". Keep up, dear, she did that last year and last week announced that she was doing it again this year! You really do need to get your facts right before we hear more of your boring rants! Finally, just what is going on with your campaign? Has Sister Lewis been sent back to Brussels? Labour have been running rings around you over these past few weeks and I hear there is plenty more to come!

I'll pray for you.

Tory lookalike 4

Here's another Tory lookalike. Not only does Tory Chris Blakeley look like the Fat Controller from Thomas the Tank but 'Fat Controller' is name his Tory 'mates' have for him behind his back! By all accounts, Blakeley is not very popular with some of his fellow Tory Councillors!

There's one thing he won't be able to control though, and that will be the verdict of the people of Wallasey on the Tories at the General Election...

Tories can't be trusted with Winter Fuel Payments - FACT

Sister Lewis of Leasowe knows as well as I do that his party can't be trusted with the pensioner's Winter Fuel Payment. Leading Tory MPs want it scrapped and the Tories famously described it as a "gimmick". I've no doubt that if the Tories win the next election the annual payment to pensioners will be a thing of the past. But Sister Lewis is having none of it! His increasingly desperate campaign in Wallasey has seen the Tories on the back foot and frantically tying to rebut Labour's effective campaign on the issue.

One Labour source told me, "Sister Lewis can rebut all he likes but pensioners around here remember all too well what the Tories did last time they were in power and they know, given the chance, the Tories will do it all again".

It seems it going to take more than warm words from the Princess to get the pensioners on side!

"smug looking and a total embarrassment"- Denis Knowles on Leah Fraser

Has Councillor Denis 'Homer Simpson' Knowles changed his view on Princess Leah since he defected to the Tories? I only ask because a series of emails in which Homer offers his verdict on his now Tory colleagues have reached me and let me tell you my dear congregation, they make interesting reading and will be devastatingly embarrassing for the Tories.

First up is this email sent from Homer on 18 March 2009 to a fellow Labour Councillor, just weeks before he defected from Labour to become Princess Leah's new best friend:

"I like this newsletter- especially the smug looking Fraser picture.

She (Princess Leah) was at the Central Park Forum this morning, attacking the officers, using divisive tactics, highlighting what Birkenhead has got compared to us. She is a total embarrassment. The officers demolished her arguments one by one. Let's publish and get it out as soon as possible. Denis"

So is this what you really think of the Princess, Homer? Embarrassing, divisive and smug? As Homer would say, "D'oh"!