Jon Ball brands Conservatives in Ealing "party of the past"

3.31.57pm GMT Mon 1st Nov 2004

Cllr Jon Ball, Chief Whip of the Ealing Lib Dem group

Cllr Jon Ball, Ealing Lib Dem Chief Whip, commenting on the Ealing Conservatives' decision to advertise for candidates to stand on their behalf in the next Council elections said "Just over a decade ago the Conservatives controlled Ealing Council. Now it appears that they can't even persuade 69 of their own members to stand under the Conservative banner in the Council elections!

"The Conservatives are the party of the past in Ealing. Why don't they give up trying to present themselves as an opposition that is capable of replacing the failed Labour administration and leave that task to the only Party that is growing in terms of membership and support locally - the Liberal Democrats?"