How was Osborne able to hoodwink Channel 4 News and claim Labour’s success in Hammersmith and Fulham?

By Toby Flux / @labourmatters

Channel 4 News aired a piece after George Osborneâ⒬┢s recent speech in which he claimed that to understand how a Conservative government would behave you need only to look at Councils like Hammersmith and Fulham.

Itâ⒬┢s therefore very odd that the Tories advanced the new Westfield shopping centre and the new Shepherds Bush library (delivered at no cost to the taxpayer) as the two things that best demonstrated why Osborne is right to pick Hammersmith and Fulham.

Because both of those achievements were negotiated by the last Labour administration!

Youâ⒬┢d think the Tories could have come up with something that theyâ⒬┢d actually done – and so presumably did Channel 4 News, who were seemingly hoodwinked into broadcasting these examples as proof of Tory efficiency and their commitment to value.