Keep The Tories Out Of Crewe & Nantwich

Now then, it’s time to get cracking. After The Times decided to feature the blog before I’d started to update it (after all, there is still a week and a half until the by-election), I thought I’d better give all the internet-surfing Tory toffs who have come onto the site today something to moan about.

Let’s start by looking at a quick profile of the Tory Toff candidate ‘Ed’ Timpson. ‘Ed’ has tried to present his childhood as the epitome of normality, facing the sort of problems of low incomes as many of us living in Crewe experienced under various Tory governments.

Apparently, according to ‘Ed’, there were times “when money was tight”. So tight in fact that his parents were only able to send him to a £23,000 per year school, rather than Eton with the rest of the Tory front-bench.

Whilst pupils at Kings Grove School in 2006 scored an 11% pass rate at 5A*s - Cs, Ed’s old school scored a whopping 100%. In fact, here’s some pictures of Ed’s old school that shows just how hard up his family was, and how similar his life has been to those of people in Crewe!

In fact, as it turns out, ‘Ed’ is the heir to the Timpson shoe-repair throne of 550 shops, and is widely valued at hundreds of millions of pounds. Now, that’s just like most normal families in Crewe. Whilst we make Bentleys, it turns out he buys them!

His rich family also allowed ‘Ed’ to go to university at Durham; a place known for taking those plummy-voiced public-school toffs who weren’t good enough to get into Oxford or Cambridge. I’m currently speaking to someone who went to Durham with ‘Ed’, and apparently there’s some interesting stuff to follow showing his sheer wealth and elitism.

Now, however, ‘Ed’ is a normal bloke living in a million pound mansion as shown here; out in the rural village of Kelsall, well away from the plebs in Crewe.

What does this all tell us? It demonstrates that ‘Ed’ has no understanding whatsoever of living in Crewe, of what real life is like, what struggles people have on a day-to-day basis, of what its like to not be a millionaire! This Tory toff cannot represent the ordinary working people of Crewe and Nantwich; it would be a travesty. Keep the Tories out.

This is a blog dedicated to keeping the Tories out of Crewe and Nantwich in the forthcoming by-election. I’m a middle aged, working class man living in the West End of Crewe; formerly employed in Crewe Works prior to its destruction by Tory and Thatcherite policies. As someone who remembers vividly the disgraceful contempt with which the Tories treated northern working class communities during the 1970s and 1980s, I am saddened that many of my fellow Crewe residents are considering voting for this sham of a party. This blog will be updated daily, detailing the elitism of the Tories, the snobbery of the leadership, the weaknesses of its policies and the reality of the toff they’ve got standing for election in Crewe. I hope to expose the reality of the modern Tory Party and break through many of the myths they have tried to create about being a party for ordinary families.