tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385595.post112869418408759616..comments2023-10-10T11:50:55.402+00:00Comments on Marcus Wood: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385595.post-1131453957049614482005-11-08T12:45:00.000+00:002005-11-08T12:45:00.000+00:00It was at it's worst, as the Audit Commission will...It was at it's worst, as the Audit Commission will testify, under Eileen Salloway's 'leadership'. Poor was their description of the last Tory administration !<BR/><BR/>Oh what a surprise you overlooked that minor detail !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385595.post-1129475700121035322005-10-16T15:15:00.000+00:002005-10-16T15:15:00.000+00:00Actually I knew the area long before I moved here,...Actually I knew the area long before I moved here, and I have spent much of the last few years re-reading our press library, and doing research with, among others, some ex-Lib dems who were active in the period.<BR/><BR/>I am not pretending that the 1980's and 1970's Tories were a brilliant council, I have said on many occasions that they made some big mistakes and were guilty of many of the charges levelled at them; and that the early Lib dems did very well to highlight those mistakes and use them to take over.<BR/><BR/>However, the idea put about by those Lib dems that a change for them would be a change for the better is clearly untrue, Torbay took a very big turn for the worse in 1990 and has gone downhill ever since on every meaningful measure available.<BR/><BR/>So no wonder people who backed that change have become disaffected.Marcus Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13540289778100132614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385595.post-1129462337295980442005-10-16T11:32:00.000+00:002005-10-16T11:32:00.000+00:00Sorry Mr Wood but I was under the impression you o...Sorry Mr Wood but I was under the impression you only moved to the area when you thought you might get elected to be MP - you have no idea what it was like when the Tories were in charge! All you have to go on are the ramblings of your party members who drone on about the 'good old days' so totally unbiased of course!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385595.post-1129104219903171432005-10-12T08:03:00.000+00:002005-10-12T08:03:00.000+00:00'You lot' - who would 'you lot' refer to? May I re...'You lot' - who would 'you lot' refer to? May I remind you, Mr or Mrs Anonymous, that it's the Lib Dems who have been in charge since 1990, and run this town for 13 out of the last 16 years.<BR/><BR/>It's just not fair, accurate or reasonable to make Conservatives or politicians in general somehow equally to blame for the mess Torbay is in and I reject your suggestion totally.<BR/><BR/>The fact is Torbay residents were conned by a very well managed Lib Dem slur campaign that started in 1988 and continues to this day to discredit the Tories locally and nationally. They persuaded Labour supporters and some disaffected Conservatives fed up with John Major into voting for them and they have been an utter disaster for the bay ever since.<BR/><BR/>And now their embarrassed supporters and past voters want to heap the blame on anyone but themselves.<BR/><BR/>When Torbay was run by Conservatives it was a successful and prosperous seaside resort, among the best in the West. The decay set in only after we lost control in 1990, as you in fact acknowledge in your post.Marcus Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13540289778100132614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385595.post-1129076601615566192005-10-12T00:23:00.000+00:002005-10-12T00:23:00.000+00:00You lot realy have got NO IDEA AT ALL!! After 16 y...You lot realy have got NO IDEA AT ALL!! After 16 years of messing Torbay up. <BR/><BR/>The only thing you lot have experience of is getting it wrongAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385595.post-1128955075151316082005-10-10T14:37:00.000+00:002005-10-10T14:37:00.000+00:00You've hit the nail on the head Mr Wood. All these...You've hit the nail on the head Mr Wood. All these amateur candidates are just as bad as the official party ones. The blind leading the blind is all it will be if any of them get in.<BR/><BR/>Where where you? You've got a business background - why didn't you stand?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385595.post-1128817035926308002005-10-09T00:17:00.000+00:002005-10-09T00:17:00.000+00:00The only candidate that Torbay should elected is a...The only candidate that Torbay should elected is an INDEPENDANT one, over the last 16 years party politics have trashed Torbay.<BR/><BR/>As for Nick Bye - what a joke - hes in local office now - hello .... no I cant hear him hes that quiet. EXEPT when he wants to get elected.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com