Election rival weighs into Wiggin Cadbury row (From Hereford Times)
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Election rival weighs into Wiggin Cadbury row
3:54pm Tuesday 26th January 2010 in
UNDER-fire Leominster MP Bill Wiggin has been branded “unbelievably thoughtless and uncaring” by an election rival.
Lib Dem candidate Lucy Hurds weighed into the row caused by Mr Wiggin’s apparent labelling of Cadbury staff as “whinging”.
She said the chocolate giant’s planned takeover by Kraft was a worrying time for employees at the county’s Marlbrook plant near Leominster.
“The insensitive way in which Mr Wiggin has handled the issue has only made a difficult time more stressful for all concerned.
“To refer to the staff as a ‘whinging workforce’ was unbelievably thoughtless and uncaring.”
For the full story on the fallout of the Conservative MPs comments, see this week's Hereford Times.
Comments(6)
dc
says...
10:10pm Tue 26 Jan 10
Jim Miller
says...
11:33pm Tue 26 Jan 10
Also, there is a General Election coming up & one understands the pull of party loyalty & not wishing to let the Conservative party down.
But Mr Wiggin has so seriously let the Nth Herefordshire Conservative party down in the last year - over & over again - that it would be astonishing if there were not a grass roots revolt against this greasy pole politician.
I fully accept by living in Leo that I live in natural Conservative territory; that doesn't mean I can't be represented by a DECENT Conservative.
foxman
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3:04pm Wed 27 Jan 10
I live in Leominster too and would never ever have considered voting conservative, although I have not seen the comments, it demonstrates one thing, Bill Wiggin is speaking honestly about how he feels, unlike the majority of politicians and wannabe politicians who only ever say what they think you want to hear.
perhaps he is unfit to be a member of parliament for this very reason and Jim Miller, its about time you put away the dagger and demonstrated to myself and the rest of leominster how you could do a better job and save me from the disgrace and shame I would heap upon myself by voting Blue
digitaldave
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3:56pm Wed 27 Jan 10
its madness, completely wrong and shows the government is unfit for purpose for letting this go ahead.
you cant stop a company owner/owners selling their business but you dont have to fund it especially when it mean less people employed and paying taxes to UK PLC
Ken Watergate
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10:13pm Wed 27 Jan 10
What is sad is that Cadbury Marlbrook was actually set up in the 50s with grants and guidance from the then Conservative govt who recognised that employment in a rural area needed to be nurtured.
That was a different Conservatism, it seems, to what we are being offered today. I would like to be able to vote for that sort of Conservatism, not Mr Wiggin's
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Jim Miller says...
8:45pm Tue 26 Jan 10