Mark Pack

Can you spot the problem with this Conservative leaflet?

By | Sat 11th August 2007 - 8:55 am

Here’s the relevant text: 

Regular readers of this newsletter will know that your local MP, Theresa Villiers, and two local Conservative Councillors, Wendy Prentice and Bridget Perry have always been against moving Foulds [School] into the site of the Barnet Countryside Centre at the end of Byng Road.

Conservatives In Touch with High Barnet ward newsletter, number 39, June 2007, London Borough of Barnet

Sounds a reasonable expression of local concern perhaps?

But remember that phrase “have always been against” and now read this:

“One of Barnet’s oldest schools, Foulds School in Byng Road, is to be re-built … [moving to] the northern end of Byng Road, overlooking open countryside … Conservative Candidate, Bridget Perry, said: “I welcome this news”.

Conservatives In Touch with High Barnet ward, number 27, June 2005, London Borough of Barnet

And now read this:

It was certainly excellent news that Foulds School is going to have a brand new state of the art building overlooking open countryside.

Cllr Bridget Perry, Conservatives In Touch with High Barnet ward newsletter, number 28, December 2005, London Borough of Barnet

Does welcoming news and saying it is excellent sound like “have always been against” to you?

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