It seems that there is no end to the lies that Claire Ward will peddle. Despite it having been made clear many times – including in a direct letter from Conservative Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley.
She is repeating her inaccurate allegations in her latest leaflet to be delivered across Watford in the few bits Labour still has volunteers:

Interestingly, in this latest leaflet Claire actually includes a photo of David Cameron – in the guise of the a mydavidcameron.com produced poster. It makes little sense that they would place Cameron’s photos …

The Liberal Democrat Party in Watford have moved from bad to worse, and proven that their promises really aren’t worth anything at all. Not only did they break a promise made in 2007, but they have broken one made just two days before!
As I blogged yesterday, the Lib Dems published a quote in their leaflet purporting to be from the Watford Observer supporting their candidate, which was nothing of the sort. They had previously published precisely the same thing in 2007 and given “written assurance” that it would not happen …

There is a reason that the Liberal Democrats are known as “Fib Dems”. But it seems that the Lib Dems in Watford have graduated from the school of dodgy bar charts (they certainly don’t produce anya ccurate ones) and moved on the mis-attributing of comments.
They have distributed a constituency-wide election campaign leaflet saying:

Yet this is not a quote from the Watford Observer, but was actually nothing of the sort, but rather a quote taken from a story in May 2007, and clearly attributed to the Lib Dem Mayor of Watford, …

Claire Ward, MP for Watford, has been caught out lying again. She has been pushing leaflets around the constituency claiming that the Conservatives would close Watford General Hospital, despite the opposite being the case.
Look at the two pieces of evidence below. One is Ward’s leaflet, and the other is a letter from Andrew Lansley, Shadow Health Secretary, stating categorically that there is, was, and never has been any intention of doing that.

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This claim started when Mike Pennning, MP for Hemel Hempstead, talking about the closure of Hemel hospital …

The Watford Observer have a story that Vince Cable is due to come to Watford to hold a Q&A session next week. But Watford Lib Dems don’t seem to be very interested in advertising this, if you take a look at their extremely poor quality website:

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Absolutely no mention at all of sainted Vince’s appearance in the town. In fact, all the advertising there has been on this is one little story in the Watford Observer – which, to be honest, most people don’t read.
When David Cameron came to …

According to the Watford Observer:

Hertfordshire County Council has been asked to respond to a Government consultation on plans “to encourage” the introduction of 20mph zones or limits in residential areas and where there are lots of pedestrians and cyclists, such as schools, shops, markets and playgrounds.

The problem I have with this is that 20mph limits will do little to improve safety. Speed isn’t the enemy, inappropriate speed and lack of awareness is.
30mph is fine for pretty much all roads pretty much all of the time. Slowing motorists down won’t automatically …

Dorothy Thornhill, Lib Dem Mayor of Watford, has decided to ban parents from some Watford playgrounds, and been completely slammed by it. Well, by everyone but Lib Dems anyway.
What is interesting is the reaction amongst the Lib Dem blogosphere and twitterati to this. They all automatically and without question fell into line behind her as soon as her so-called “clarification” was published – because Lib Dems, despite their rhetoric, are the most tribal of all political parties. What is most amusing is the attempts by Lib Dem Voice to smear …

Dorothy Thornhill, Mayor of Watford, has decided to ban parents from council playgrounds -two specific playgrounds, rather than all – due to fears over paedophilia, claiming that it was

a positive decision to safeguard children, by ensuring that all children left at a supervised play session are only left under the care of qualified CRB checked and legit staff.

This was her original defence of the ludicrous plan – backed up with the assertation that she was merely enforcing government policy. This was then branded “a joke” by Ofsted – as only …

Claire Ward (Labour MP for Watford) is a hypocrite. Last year, she claimed the full £23,083 second home allowance and justified it through he party political rather than constituency work.

I am a Government whip which means I tend to be in the house for longer periods than other MPs… [I] often work until around 10.30pm at night. I often have to come back to the House very early the next morning.

If your party work is what keeps you at the Commons, then your party should be paying for your second …

And also, where does she sleep? In her Watford constituency home or in London?
Claire Ward has claimed the full second home allowance of £23,083 for the second year a row, despite her constituency being so close to Westminster – barely more than half an hour by public transport!
How can she possibly justify claiming so much of our money rather than have an hours worth of communting every day? Yes MPs work long hours, but that’s no excuse for charging us an extra £23,000 a year! I’m really not surprised that …