Walters in happier times brown nosing the Prince of Wales in the company of ex-Coun. Dorothy Jordan. That was back in the day when the Liberal Democrat Party had enough decent Town Councillors to maintain an air of respectability. Now they have lost their best representatives, and Walters place on the Council was given to a Pakistani, causing him to launch his doomed run as an Independent..
Recently I lent a local friend of mine a hand in a by-election for Stoodley Ward. One of my pals’ opponents was a bloke who I know quite well.
Philip Walters, a former Liberal Democrat Town Councillor (back when the Liberal Democrats were at their peak with seventeen out of the eighteen seats on the Town Council) had re-emerged as an Independent. He quit in anger at, having been a doomed loyal candidate for the Cornholme by-election, been rejected as a candidate for the winnable Stoodley Ward in favour of an unknown Pakistani who went on to win the seat.
The friend I was helping was the NF candidate Chris Jackson, and Walters decided to become the fourth Liberal Democrat to try his hand as an Independent. Philip has been complaining heavily to all who will listen that the NF’s material was ridiculing him by insinuating that he is workshy and rarely leaves the pub.
Having proof read and advised Chris on his leaflets I can certainly acknowledge that the NF’s remarks in their regular newsletter were vicious but no factually incorrect statements about him was made. Chris doesn’t care for Walters very much, one reason being his closeness to the Liberal comic-relief but thoroughly unscrupulous Coun. “Champagne Chris” Baksa. Walters was beaten into last place by the NF. Halfway during his campaign Phil got arrogant began attacking me as well, even though I am not a member of the NF and haven’t been for ten years.
Phil has, I am informed, attempted to get Chris prosecuted for some of the nastier remarks, I assume his pleas have fallen on deaf ears. But the hypocrisy!
You would think Walters had not been a party to any personal attacks and character defamation himself. He forgets when I was up against him in Cornholme he was quite happy to shove leaflets through doors insinuating that I am lying about my not being a member of a political party. Does he not think that I know of some of the misleading remarks that were made about me by both him and his then-ally in the Liberal’s Joe Rez?
In fact I had shaken the hand of both of my opponents in Cornholme, and of Rez in Central. There was assurance from all the candidates that they would not resort to personal abuse in the election campaign. While the Labour Party have been true to their word, Rez and Walters broke theirs. When I confronted them about this they both claimed that their local party supremo, “Slick Mick” Taylor and his Shabbos Goy Hywel Morgan had wrote the leaflets. I have no way of knowing if this is true, but they did not have to go out and deliver these leaflets, they could have stood up like men and said;
“I’m the Candidate, not you and you will not use my leaflets for your personal vendetta”.
They both failed the manhood test there - nobody put a gun to their heads! One thing is for sure, I will never take a local Liberal Democrat’s word on such a thing again. So indeed, it seems that there is a lesson here. Liberal Democrats thinking of partaking in their branch slagging off third party candidates had better put themselves in the other guy’s shoes before doing so.
Philip Walters, a former Liberal Democrat Town Councillor (back when the Liberal Democrats were at their peak with seventeen out of the eighteen seats on the Town Council) had re-emerged as an Independent. He quit in anger at, having been a doomed loyal candidate for the Cornholme by-election, been rejected as a candidate for the winnable Stoodley Ward in favour of an unknown Pakistani who went on to win the seat.
The friend I was helping was the NF candidate Chris Jackson, and Walters decided to become the fourth Liberal Democrat to try his hand as an Independent. Philip has been complaining heavily to all who will listen that the NF’s material was ridiculing him by insinuating that he is workshy and rarely leaves the pub.
Having proof read and advised Chris on his leaflets I can certainly acknowledge that the NF’s remarks in their regular newsletter were vicious but no factually incorrect statements about him was made. Chris doesn’t care for Walters very much, one reason being his closeness to the Liberal comic-relief but thoroughly unscrupulous Coun. “Champagne Chris” Baksa. Walters was beaten into last place by the NF. Halfway during his campaign Phil got arrogant began attacking me as well, even though I am not a member of the NF and haven’t been for ten years.
Phil has, I am informed, attempted to get Chris prosecuted for some of the nastier remarks, I assume his pleas have fallen on deaf ears. But the hypocrisy!
You would think Walters had not been a party to any personal attacks and character defamation himself. He forgets when I was up against him in Cornholme he was quite happy to shove leaflets through doors insinuating that I am lying about my not being a member of a political party. Does he not think that I know of some of the misleading remarks that were made about me by both him and his then-ally in the Liberal’s Joe Rez?
In fact I had shaken the hand of both of my opponents in Cornholme, and of Rez in Central. There was assurance from all the candidates that they would not resort to personal abuse in the election campaign. While the Labour Party have been true to their word, Rez and Walters broke theirs. When I confronted them about this they both claimed that their local party supremo, “Slick Mick” Taylor and his Shabbos Goy Hywel Morgan had wrote the leaflets. I have no way of knowing if this is true, but they did not have to go out and deliver these leaflets, they could have stood up like men and said;
“I’m the Candidate, not you and you will not use my leaflets for your personal vendetta”.
They both failed the manhood test there - nobody put a gun to their heads! One thing is for sure, I will never take a local Liberal Democrat’s word on such a thing again. So indeed, it seems that there is a lesson here. Liberal Democrats thinking of partaking in their branch slagging off third party candidates had better put themselves in the other guy’s shoes before doing so.
Walters is stuck to keeping company with billy-no-mates Coun. "Champagne Chris" Baksa now. Apologies for the quality of the image but this was taken outside the Town Hall on the night of Walters second doomed attempt to take Cornholme via a co-option, where all three Independents voted for Labour's candidate Mike Hatfield.