Fraudulent Faisal & Charlotte, the Single Mother

by Brain Bamford
Labour Shuns Single Mother & Embraces Election Fraudster

Charlotte Hughes - Dumped by Labour for Council Tax Arrears

WHILE in Rochdale the Labour Party appears to be only too willing to excuse Councillor Faisal Rana, a vulgar fraud who voted twice in the local elections last May, breaching the Representation of the People Act 1983; in nearby Tameside the local Labour Party has blocked a single mother, Charlotte Hughes, from standing in a by-election in Ashton Waterloo ward because she had fallen into debt with her council tax.

On the 3rd, August, an excited local Tameside MP, Angela Rayner wrote:  

'Congratulations to anti poverty campaigner @charlotteh71 who has tonight been selected as our Labour Party candidate for Ashton Waterloo Ward in my constituency in the upcoming council by election. I look forward to campaigning hard with Charlotte and our Labour Party team.'

Alas, it was not to be for on August 8th, Charlotte wrote on Twitter that she had been deselected owing to an unpaid council tax bill: :   
'However I owe council tax, a big NO NO. I’m not ashamed of being poor. It’s a fact. I’m working class and proud of it. However to cut along story short I have been deselected because of this.'

What distinguishes the single mother Charlotte Hughes in Tameside from Councillor Faisal Rana in Rochdale, is that the Rochdale Councillor is a rich director, who also has a portfolio of some 32 houses in central Rochdale, while Ms. Hughes who lives in a council house is poor, and has been driven by misfortune into debt.

The cunning swindler and manipulator of the election register is acceptable in today's Labour Party, while a person down on her luck becomes a persona non grata  in the eyes of the great and the good in today's Labour Party in the Greater Manchester area.

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"Here comes Jonny": Reynolds does a somersault and becomes a Corbynite overnight!

Nimble Jonny Reynolds MP

They say that you have to be nimble on your feet in politics, and Jonny Reynolds MP, who represents the constituency of Stalybridge and Hyde for Labour, would certainly give Hermes a run for his money.

Only weeks ago the hapless Blairite MP, was campaigning on behalf of Liz Kendal MP, for the leadership of the Labour Party, who came last in the election and was batting to get his old mate, Peter (Meddlesome) Mandelson, elected as Chancellor of Manchester University. Mandelson also came last losing to Lemn Sissay, a black poet from Wigan. You might say that nimble Jonny has a penchant for backing losers.

Both the Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge and Hyde Constituency Labour Party's, chose to support Jeremy Corbyn in the leadership election. Angela Rayner opted to support the weak and vacillating Andy Burnham, along with her Labour colleague, Andrew Gwynne MP, who represents Denton and Reddish.

In a recent flyer to Labour Party members, nimble Jonny, told the party faithful:

"It is now incumbent on all of us to do what we can to beat the Tories and elect Jeremy as Prime Minister."

Although some Labour MPs on the Blairite 'centre-left' have refused to serve in a Corbyn cabinet, nimble Jonny, intends to keep the roof over his head and with some deft footwork, has now done a volte-face, by accepting the position of Shadow Minister for Transport in Corbyn's cabinet. As nimble Jonny told Labour members, with "four children"..."family life is not easy or quiet!" adding, "after careful thought Claire (his spouse), has decided to not stand for re-election as one of our Councillors in Duki-Stalyward."

In Tameside, the Labour Party have two Labour clubs in Denton and Stalybridge. Unlike many Labour Party groups in other parts of the country, the Labour Party in Tameside, does have close links with freemasonry. Once a year, the Ashton Masonic Lodge holds the Roy Oldham memorial dinner, in tribute to the former masonic Labour leader of Tameside Council, Roy Oldham, who died in 2010, aged 76. Although Stalybridge Labour Club have been experiencing financial difficulties for some considerable time, due to loss of custom, the Tameside Labour Party, have chosen to hold their annual fundraiser not at Denton or Stalybridge Labour Clubs, but at the Ashton Masonic Lodge. No doubt there'll be some secret handshakes going on at the Labour fundraiser amongst the old squares.