Can’t help a little bit of taking the mickey out of LibDems and in Walsall it isn’t hard but today I had a leaflet come through the door, local elections coming up don’t you know.

I thought I’d take this little snippet out and share it.

Now for those not of these parts, a little background. This is from Nadia Fazal, LibDem candidate for my ward, Willenhall South in the forthcoming elections. Nadia’s gets about a bit (political sense) having previously been a member of the Labour Party who wouldn’t elect her to stand, headed off to Respect where they’d let anyone stand but nobody would vote for them and finally she’s ended up as a LibDemmer.

Nadia’s obviously not too hot on her politics, either that or she’s being deliberately misleading but we’ll just take a peek at what she’s saying shall we.

Well, all the stuff about Walsall having the highest council tax, well yes, that’s all correct but what’s this:

“Council tax in Birmingham where the Liberal Democrats are in control has gone up by a below inflation 1.9%”

Now I’ve not been keeping up with things the last week or so due to personal reasons that I’ll write a bit about later but I’m sure I would have noticed mass defections from Labour and the Tories to the LibDems in Birmingham so that they could have taken control of the council.

Ah, that’s right, no, Nadia doesn’t know what she’s talking about, Birmingham would be Tory controlled with a few LibDem bag carriers to make up the numbers.

There’s also this nice little quote:

“where Liberal Democrats have a say in running things, council tax payers get a better deal.”

Nadia’s young, she might not remember but some of us do. When the Tories needed LidDem bag carriers in Walsall a few years back (who were subsequently ditched when the Tories got enough seats to run things on their own) they were so effective in getting a better deal for council tax payers that they forced through an increase of just shy of 20% in one year alone.

Yep, that was a good deal for the council tax payers wasn’t it?