It seems that local Conservatives are so desperate to distance themselves from the Conservative plans to bulldoze the Peninsula that they are even blaming Ed Balls.
Ed Balls who visited Medway this week to highlight the failure of the reckless Conservatives on unemployment has actually never said anything directly about the Island Airport.
Peninsula Tories, who have been following the lack-lustre 'pie-in-the-sky' campaign led by Tory Council leader Rodney Chambers (pictured right) are feeling the heat; they are all likely to be held directly responsible in the ballot box should the proposal take-off in Westminster.
Only this week local Tories and MP's were stating to the media and Twitter followers that the government has 'no plans' for an airport. A position which stands in absolute tatters with the revelations in several broadsheets.
You can not believe a word they say.
To prove a point a full transcript of what Ed Ball's actually said today can be found here and the excerpt below:
DM: OK, we’ve heard the strategy what about specifics. You mentioned infrastructure projects there and a lot of business leaders have been talking over the last few days and weeks in particular about airport capacity. Now in government you supported a third runway at Heathrow, now you don’t, do you support an entirely new airport perhaps in the south-east?
EB: Personally and historically I always supported the third runway at Heathrow but the government has taken that off the agenda, they say it is not going to happen. We in the Labour Party accept that they have now killed that off certainly for the foreseeable future. The question is: are there other places where you can get the capacity into the south-east? I think it is really important for business and for job creation, it is important actually for the northern regions too, that we have extra capacity so we are saying to the government: you have taken Heathrow off the agenda, have a review, we will support you, find the capacity in the south-east to boost airport capacity which is really needed for jobs and growth, and I wish the government would listen. It seems to me to be very anti, not just business but of regions, jobs and growth for them just to turn their face against it.
Labour have supported the expansion of Manston and have openly campaigned for this position.
We all know that Tories locally are now in a desperate and dithering denial about the Tory plans to pave over the Peninsula; but to latch onto a statement with no reference to Cliffe/ Hoo or the Island shows how they will grasp at any straw, however thin, to distance themselves.
Tories should put the interests of Peninsula residents first and run a visual campaign against Hilton, Osborne and Johnson.
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