Comments on: ..as does April Fool’s Day http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2008/03/26/as-does-april-fools-day/ MP for Wantage and Didcot Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:07:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Tizzy http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2008/03/26/as-does-april-fools-day/#comment-33786 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:47:17 +0000 http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2008/03/26/as-does-april-fools-day/#comment-33786 Are you Richard Borrie? http://tpa.typepad.com/waste/2008/03/council-spendin.html Are you Richard Borrie?

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]]> by: Andrew http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2008/03/26/as-does-april-fools-day/#comment-31547 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:39:54 +0000 http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2008/03/26/as-does-april-fools-day/#comment-31547 You are right about NUT being a political party, and it saddens me hugely. What saddens me even more is that Oxfam, the well-known anti-poverty charity which also campaigns to eradicate poverty in the United Kingdom, gives the appearance of becoming an arm of the Labour party. The deputy director and head of campaigns of Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme loves publicly to condemn Conservative policy proposals. This Oxfam senior manager writes on her blog: "Some Tory councillor in Kent wants to sterilise benefits recipients. You know the people that write frothingly awful rightwing-as-fuck comments below any blogpost about the welfare state? Well, one of them actually got elected! Christ." David Cameron's appointment of Richard Balfe as his envoy to the trade union movement provides another opportunity for this Oxfam official to sneer at the Tories. She writes: "a Conservative envoy to the union movement. Note how the virulent anti-union rightwinger gets hushed up in the comments by the nodding heads." She also wants to put more money in the pockets of families living below the poverty line whether in work or not through tax credits and benefits is, and is a staunch supporter of Gordon Brown's tax credts, even though there is sufficient evidence to suggest that tax credits hide poverty rather than addressing it. What makes this Oxfam manager's public statements about the Conservative party even more unacceptable is that she happens to be a Labour Councillor in Oxford and a local Labour party spokesperson on poverty in the UK. Isn't there a conflict of interests here, I wonder. You are right about NUT being a political party, and it saddens me hugely. What saddens me even more is that Oxfam, the well-known anti-poverty charity which also campaigns to eradicate poverty in the United Kingdom, gives the appearance of becoming an arm of the Labour party. The deputy director and head of campaigns of Oxfam’s UK Poverty Programme loves publicly to condemn Conservative policy proposals. This Oxfam senior manager writes on her blog: “Some Tory councillor in Kent wants to sterilise benefits recipients. You know the people that write frothingly awful rightwing-as-fuck comments below any blogpost about the welfare state? Well, one of them actually got elected! Christ.” David Cameron’s appointment of Richard Balfe as his envoy to the trade union movement provides another opportunity for this Oxfam official to sneer at the Tories. She writes: “a Conservative envoy to the union movement. Note how the virulent anti-union rightwinger gets hushed up in the comments by the nodding heads.” She also wants to put more money in the pockets of families living below the poverty line whether in work or not through tax credits and benefits is, and is a staunch supporter of Gordon Brown’s tax credts, even though there is sufficient evidence to suggest that tax credits hide poverty rather than addressing it. What makes this Oxfam manager’s public statements about the Conservative party even more unacceptable is that she happens to be a Labour Councillor in Oxford and a local Labour party spokesperson on poverty in the UK. Isn’t there a conflict of interests here, I wonder.

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