After yesterdays post on dodgy bar charts, it’s time to look into one of the articles of the lovely Lib Dem leaflet.

The most ridiculous is this one:

Shocking, what nasty Tories. One slight problem the vast majority of the article is factually incorrect. Extremely worrying since there have been Lib Dem Councillors at every meeting involving this.

Lets look into two of the claims:

• “… Reading Conservatives withdrew their support from a community campaign and instead backed Labour plans to hand the site over to a tall hotel development by the Thames” - False. Labour recommended to Cabinet the hotel option, however this decision was “called in” by Conservatives forcing Labour to rethink it’s plans. (See this article in the Reading Post for more details)
• “Labour have backed the hotel plans throughout”. No they haven’t - thanks to the Conservative call in Labour did a u-turn at a later Cabinet meeting and now back the community option. (See this article in the Reading Post for more details).

The Liberal Democrats have yet to learn that people respond to positive articles about what they would do if they were to get into power, rather than pointless attacks against Conservatives and Labour.

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