I have posted already about the strange leaflet put out by the Conservative candidate in the upcoming by-election in the Farnley and Wortley ward in Leeds which in fact did not mention he was a Conservative until the bottom of the back page. I put it down to embarrasment of the Tory brand, but now, in an ironic twist, it is the Conservatives who have reason to be embarrassed by the Candidate!
The Yorkshire Evening Post reported yesterday that Glenn Broadbent, the Tory candidate in the by-election, has been forced to apologise after he said, on Facebook, he was sick of paying tax to support “imported spongers”. The paper said: ‘He also ranted against “lazy people” and subsidising the “Scots and Welsh”.
Full story here:
www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Spongerjibe-Tory-forced-to-say.4465569.jp
I also said in an earlier blog that Mr. Broadbent didn’t actually say what he did for a living, despite his leaflet carrying his ‘c.v.’. Wouldn’t it be doubly ironic if he was unemployed!
