Comments on Tory Bear - right-wing political gossip: Verdict on Adeela Attack - Labour Guilty

Adeela is awol even from tory press releases http...

2010-02-16T10:45:30.610Z

Adeela is awol even from tory press releases

https://bristolwestpaul.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/since-youve-been-gone/

Link to Bristol Evening Post article with fuller d...

2010-02-09T12:02:02.204Z

Link to Bristol Evening Post article with fuller details

https://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/Bristol-Tory-candidate-ran-163-330-000-debt/article-1817678-detail/article.html

lol her house got repossessed lol.

2010-02-08T11:19:22.830Z

lol her house got repossessed lol.

So they won't be saying that she is a rich Tor...

2010-02-02T09:59:07.779Z

So they won't be saying that she is a rich Tory toff, totally out of touch with the realities of life in the UK, will they?

Love your wailing TB; fantastic. Can only echo Pol...

2010-02-01T19:25:13.499Z

Love your wailing TB; fantastic. Can only echo Political Scrapbook.

TB: Of course it is orchestrated. What else do you expect? Wether it was orchestrated or not however does not change the issue. If this woman is so much in debt then really she probably shouldn't be running for the seat, and there are other ethical issues as well.

I do find it hilarious however that a party pledging to bring financial sanity back to Westminster (not, of course, that it ever left) would take on a PPC whose skills with money are so questionable.

Stop bleating and take it on the chin. #kerryout has died a death and fallen into irrelevance. Better luck next time.

Oh dear TB. It's all a big Labour bloggers con...

2010-02-01T18:38:32.125Z

Oh dear TB. It's all a big Labour bloggers conspiracy!

Where do I send the tinfoil?

Tory Bear is telling us that if it were a fact tha...

2010-02-01T18:28:04.354Z

Tory Bear is telling us that if it were a fact that Kerry McCarthy MP, or any Labour ppc (let's say Ed Miliband in 2005 before getting in) had a CCJ registered as outstanding for £300k+ he would refuse to blog it, and challenge the reporting of it.

Chinny Reck-On.

A CCJ is clearly a public fact.

While the Bear certainly adds to the gaiety of the blogosphere with his [Wile E Coyote-style] political stunts, he demonstrates a level of blinkered political hyperpartisanship which can only be described (with apologies to my fallen comrade) as "Draperesque".

I don't know Adeela Shafi. It may be the case (as some posit, without any new information that I can see) that the debt has been discharged, and that she is in the process of having the registration changed, or not. Alternatively, efforts may e underway to do this now.

It is possible too that the history was fully disclosed to Tory selectors, and indeed that it was incurred in some good business venture that was unlucky, or that there is more to the story to which anybody would be sympathetic.

But it should be clear to everyone there are few grounds for either positive or negative suppositions of that kind until an explanation is given.

One should not use the refusal to offer any initial comment as proof of anything. But I would be astoniahed if anybody in any party felt this was an illegitimate inquiry of a Parliamentary candidate, or would do anything but advise a candidate of any party to explain the history clearly and candidly.

All the more so, of course, if the candidate is running on a manifesto of the urgency of restraining both private and public debt.

Psst TB, here's the real news story. The rest...

2010-02-01T17:55:09.876Z

Psst TB, here's the real news story.

The rest of us - you know, the people who are going to suffer from "cast-iron" Dave's austerity measures and have our public services cut - we don't borrow huge amounts of money and then, errm forget to pay it back.

Whether Shafi actually paid off the debit or not is not important here, what is important is that here is someone who will lecture us about "austerity" and "tightening our belts" and "cuts" and yet she deliberately, and wantonly, refused to pay off her own debts to the point that her creditors had to take her to court to make her pay up.

Clearly she is not someone to trust. That's the real story.

wish cchq would pass me things.. would make blo...

2010-02-01T17:25:47.296Z
wish cchq would pass me things.. would make blogging much easier. ;)

You mean like more cosy lunches and dinners?

That's right - there's no contact between CCHQ and Tory bloggers at all!

Nothing to see here, move along!

The #KerryOut campaign has always been something I...

2010-02-01T16:31:22.415Z
The #KerryOut campaign has always been something I've been dubious about, as I blogged before, and I still have my fears. The risk of such personal targetting simply energising the Labour activist base, and appearing "nasty" to voters, far outweighs the benefit.

As for the CCJ story, I think Adeela is right to just ignore it. Most people don't care, by the election it will all be forgotten about, and I can't see the rumour of outstanding debts swinging votes away from her. Denying it simply creates another story, gives it more profile, and actually makes people believe it more! There's a saying: "Never believe anything until it's been officially denied."

wish cchq would pass me things.. would make bloggi...

2010-02-01T16:30:19.772Z
wish cchq would pass me things.. would make blogging much easier. ;)

I've no idea whether the tip-off for the Mirro...

2010-02-01T16:27:29.318Z
I've no idea whether the tip-off for the Mirror came from Victoria Street, someone in Bristol, elsewhere or indeed if Mirror journos were trawling through PPC financial records.

The provenance of this doesn't change the facts in this case: the Registry Trust records an unsatisfied CCJ for well over £300,000 in Adeela Shafi's name.

TB, I note with interest that when you suspect that a story may have a Labour staffer/organisers fingerprints on it to whatever extent, you wail about the "Labour machine". When CCHQ passes something on to you it gets written up as something along the lines of "TB's eyes and ears on the ground"!

Whether Labour were behind this or not seems irrel...

2010-02-01T16:15:14.360Z
Whether Labour were behind this or not seems irrelevant. The most important thing is whether it is true. Just saying it's 'lazy' and 'dubious' doesn't really get anyone anywhere.

And the problem is, Adeela Shafi and Conservative Central Office could and should have spoken out by now. By denying it, they could have killed the story straight away.

But they haven't. The question is - why not?

As a Labour PPC and close ally of McCarthy I am am...

2010-02-01T16:11:22.888Z
As a Labour PPC and close ally of McCarthy I am amazed you have broken cover, don't you normally get young girls to do your dirty work on the internet down Bristol way?

Just read this and wonder if you also believe that...

2010-02-01T16:09:33.220Z
Just read this and wonder if you also believe that aliens are walking among us and that the CIA were responsible for the death of Diana?