Local Labour officials may be feeling a little embarrassed tonight after the revelation that two “Greenwich Residents” featured in their election literature are in fact closely associated with the Labour Party.
Mark and Miranda Bradley were featured in the leaflet saying “Labour’s really helping us through these tough times… Our borough is really on the up and that’s because Labour are on our side”.
When local journalist, Adam Bienkov, saw the leaflet he was able to identify the “local residents” in the leaflets as Mark Bradley and Miranda Williams. Miranda has revealed on her Twitter account that she works for an MP, has attended a fundraiser for Labour and has also delivered election leaflets for them.
That might be embarrasing enough, but unfortunately things get even worse. Adam was also able to identify Miranda as having been in attendance at a Labour organised public meeting to discuss the Olympics where she got up to attack local NIMBYs and proclaim her excitement at the prospect of the Olympics coming to Greenwich – all without any mention of her relationship to the Labour Party.
John O'Donnell says
If one conducted a competition to find the most unsuitable site for an olympic equestrian site then Greenwich Park would be high on such a list . Why ,
1 To small at 750 m by 1000 m , 185 acres it cannot host the event . The cross country course is 6300 m by 10 m . This means that 8.4% of the park is used .
2 Last wekend the park was full of people , where are they supposed to go when the park is closed.
3 At a recent meeting of the Friends of Greenwich park , The park manager admitted that the North end of the park would be closed for about six/seven months to allow construction of Grandstand .
4 Locog say they will not use Blackheath , but they now say they will use the part used by the Fun Fair . However on their recent plan of the park there is no mention of parking for VIP cars , air ambulance , etc. Why are they being so reluctant to release information . I have made applications to Locog under the freedom of information act and my app;ications have been refused under the grounds that locog is a private company and exempt from the act . We have all seen why our MP wanted their expenses exempted from the freedom of information act and can we assume that the real reason that locog refuse to release their plans is fear of what the public will say. The memebers of locog areas follows the mayor of London, the ODA and the dept of media and sport, not what I would call a private company
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