A Party Political Statement by the Rotherham Labour Party (or put another way, how to try to spin your way out of the mire)

Well everything’s all alright now then according to Labour. They have carried out an incredible amount of work to put things right.

http://www.rotherhamlabour.org/2015/02/26/labour-group-response-to-questions-from-the-advertiser/

“The Labour Group called for the commissioning of the Jay Report in order for the full facts to come out into the open and we are pleased that this has happened”. According to an ex Labour councillor I spoke to said it was Martin Kimber who, political reasons against the Labour party pushed for the Jay report. Someone’s lying.

” We wanted to see that report undertaken to establish what had gone wrong in Rotherham – so we could ensure that it would not happen again”. So why commission the report and but go to great efforts to deny the reports contents?

“We accept the findings of the Jay Report and the subsequent report by Louise Casey. Louise Casey reported that when she arrived in Rotherham she found a majority of councillors she spoke to, to be in denial. We accept comments made then, it is difficult to face uncomfortable truths, but no Labour councillors deny the continuing problems with sexual exploitation in our town.”

For this read ‘We don’t really accept the findings of the reports but in order to get people to vote for us and to pretend to the Commissioners we’ve changed and are ready to control the council again, we quite prepared to lie and lie and lie.’

If the Labour party really did accept the findings of the Jay report, why did so many (on film at that) say they didn’t agree with the findings of the Jay or Casey reports? The worst example being the new deputy leader Gordon Watson.

Sickening, cynical spin from a discredited bunch of liars.

The Badger