As the IW LibDems drag out their death throes, it seems that one media outlet on the Island is determined to give them a boost at the expense of Island Labour if at all possible.
Last February just after the Council Budget Solent TV tried to restrict the Panel on their Extra Extra programme to the Tory Council Leader and the IW LibDem chairperson (who isn't even a councillor). Only complaints by me for Island Labour that it was hardly fair to cut out the ONLY opposition party that submitted an alternative Budget, secured us a slot in that edition.
Now they are deliberately cutting us out of their post 14-19 Education edition of the programme tomorrow. Complaints by both me and our party Chair, Mark Chiverton, have seen no relenting in their position.
Their bias against Labour and their pro-LibDemmery is becoming manifest.
Or perhaps the Tory Council Leader prefers an easy ride from a party who had someone voting WITH the Tories on the 14-19 Education issue last Monday......
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Quite disgraceful Geoff. But you know what it is like here - treat politics as the preserve of the middle classes
I'm appalled, if not totally surprised, at the omission of a Labour Party representative on the panel for the Education programme scheduled for tomorrow (26th April).
To omit a Labour representative is unacceptable. Not only is Labour an emerging alternative to the Conservatives here on the Island, it is currently the ONLY alternative. Furthermore, it has proven this point by being the only opposition in County Hall to the Andy Sutton regime.
As a sometime contributer to the Extra Extra programme, I would like to register my disgust at this clear denial of Labour's right to carry its views to the Island public on an equal basis to that offered to the Conservatives and the LibDems whose presence during these last two years has been as conspicuous as that of the crew of the Mary Celeste.
Kenn Pearson
IW Radio have just covered this and they have invited you in on the phone in.
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