This morning Gary Streeter, my Tory opponent, apologised for the photo-cropping incident I highlighted yesterday. Mr Streeter claimed that he had not seen the picture saying “it must have been the printers” and claims he had been unaware that I had been cut from his election leaflet promoting cross-party action on the incinerator. Nonetheless, his apology is welcome.
I’m pleased to have had the chance to have a face to face conversation with Mr Streeter about this and hope that now the photo-cropping has been made public and that the Conservatives have made an apology we can move onto talking about policy.
If you didn’t see my blog yesterday about it, Labourmatters have done a photo montage of the original and the edited photo that sums up the edit nicely – you can see the original photo here (better link to this as the montage obscures the UKIP candidate!):
For clarification I have no problem with people using this photo if they’re genuinely trying to promote action against the incinerator but please don’t edit anyone out of the picture. I wouldn’t edit Gary out of the picture (far right) and nor should the Conservatives have edited me out (on the left).
An 82p Flapjack and expenses
When Gary apologised he also mentioned that he would like it if I did not repeat the mention in one of my leaflets of the media’s claim that he claimed 82p on a flapjack – because he would like it known that he didn’t actually do this. You can find more about this here and here and here.
The expense scandal hardly did anyone any favours and retorting photo-cropping with a flapjack expense claim is not exactly the debate I’d like to be having in the last nine days of the election campaign. Perhaps today therefore, we can now concentrate on the news that crime is down, that the nationalised banks are returning a profit to the taxpayer and that the action taken by government to address the recession is not only working but was opposed by the Tories every step of the way.
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