David Cameron upsets Hendon Blue Rinse brigade

There was a story in yesterdays Evening Standard which made me chuckle. It seems that the President of the Hendon Conservative Party Mrs Elizabeth Sparrow, aged 70 was featured in the famous 1979 "Labour isn't working" Poster campaign when she responded to a call to party activists to turn up at a location to be photo's as part of a "queue of people". She wasn't told that the queue she was going to be photo'd in was a "dole queue" and she would be depicted as a "benefit scrounger" on posters up and down the land (Amusingly, if you look closely at the picture, they are a "dole queue" all dressed up in their Sunday best, not a hoodie in sight - no 1979 punks, skinheads, goths or rastas). Now that David Cameron has rehired Maurice Saatchi, creator of the original poster in a last desperate attempt to revive his flagging campaign, Mrs Sparrow can keep silent no longer. She told the Evening Standard that she did not like “distasteful” electioneering. She said: “It's all spin, and in a way that's what advertising is.”

No doubt we'll soon be seeing truthful election leaflets from Mrs Sparrows association, detailing how the Barnet Tories lost millions in Iceland, how their candidate presided over a the Aerodrome Road fiasco which cost Barnet Taxpayers £11 Million and how they are abolishing sheltered Housing wardens against the wishes of 85% of the elderly and vulnerable people they consulted. Mrs Sparrow is always welcome to write a guest blog here telling us the truth about what a cock up her party have presided over in Barnet.