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Labour’s press release “direct from Fantasy Island”
Friday 27th May 2005 Labour has issued a press release direct from Fantasy Island. MEP Philip Whitehead says that I intend to leave the Conservative Party and join another party. He is dead wrong. I have no such intentions. I have openly criticised other MEPs, notably Bill Turncoat-Dunn and Robert Kilroy-Silk, who have stood for election on one party ticket and then defected to another party. I will not do so myself. If we are talking about party loyalty, then Mr Whitehead should explain why in recent months he has repeatedly voted against his own Labour government’s policy, notably on the Working Time Directive. Only last Wednesday at a lunch in Brussels hosted by the Engineering Employers Federation, he was boasting of how he had voted against competitiveness and labour market flexibility. Mr Whitehead was elected on a British Labour Party ticket, but has defected to the European Socialists. I have always regarded Philip as a decent and honourable man, so I am disappointed to find him peddling mischievous lies. |