Conservatives bid to save non-existent hospital wards

Welcome to another story of slick organisation courtesy of David Cameron and co:

1. You launch an NHS campaign.
2. You promise to save Altrincham General Hospital’s A+E ward and maternity unit.
3. Someone points out that, er…, the hospital doesn’t actually have either.
4. You withdraw your promise and issue a new one, this time saying you are only going to save the maternity unit.
5. Someone points out that, er…., it really doesn’t have a maternity unit for you to save.
6. The information for the second (also wrong) promise is sourced in a document you send to the media as “Info from local MP”.
7. You are David Cameron and the local Member of Parliament who has been blamed for the information is … Graham Brady (the person who quit the Conservative Party’s frontbench in the grammar school row).

Hat tip: Manchester Evening News