By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982
The Tory leader in Hammersmith and Fulham, Stephen Greenhalgh, has been reported tonight as saying:
“My mates are all in the Shadow Cabinet, waiting to get those boxes, being terribly excited. I went to university with them, they they haven’t run a pissup in a brewery. They’re going to get a department of state, in one case running the finances of the nation”.
Greenhglagh is head of the Conservative Councils Innovation Unit, which he was appointed to by David Cameron and Eric Pickles. He was also voted ConservativeHome Local Hero of the Year 2008 by readers of that site.
The picture Greenhalgh paints of his colleagues is one of a nepotistic, arrogant and frankly incapable group, not ready to lead this country at a time of recession – in spite of their obvious complacency.
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