What Guido Fawkes didn’t tell you about the Eastleigh meeting last night
Yesterday Guido Fawkes excitedly blogged that “Eastleigh LibDems Holding Emergency Meeting … Guido has just heard they are holding an unscheduled meeting” and went on to claim in a subsequent post that Chris Huhne’s election expenses were “top of the agenda”.
Alas, Guido’s source is not exactly up to top-notch standards on this one.
Let’s take it one by one.
Was it an emergency meeting? No, it was a previously scheduled one.
Was it a Liberal Democrat meeting? No, it was a meeting of the Eastleigh and the Bishopstoke, Fair Oak and Horton Heath Local Area Committees to which council officers and non-Liberal Democrat councillors were invited.
At this point you might wonder if Chris Huhne’s election expenses were really top of the agenda for a meeting to which not only outsiders but rival politicians were invited.
And you’d be right to wonder.
Because why had these two Local Area Committees, who usually meet separately, scheduled a meeting together?
It was because along with their normal business there was one special, joint item of business to talk about…
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… a cycle path.
Yes indeed the emergency Lib Dem meeting with election expenses top of the agenda was actually a scheduled council meeting to talk about local issues with a local cycle path top of the agenda. (UPDATE: A car park also featured.)
Time for you to get a new source Guido, I think if s/he can’t tell the difference between an expense return and a bicycle.
(via @markpack) Quelle surprise, Guido's been lying again: http://bit.ly/lzoq7x