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chartwell · 13-05-2008, 03:40 PM

According to the article Bushell stood down because a £600,000 promised marketing budget never materialised - see below.

Mike

“Look, don’t take my word for it. To lose one mayoral candidate could be seen as unfortunate, but to lose two?” It appears that before O’Connor’s last minute arrival, a well-known journalist had stood down as mayoral candidate for the party.
From all accounts it appears he had been promised a £600,000 marketing budget which, like O’Connor’s, failed to materialise. The former candidate stood down because he knew that running for Mayor without a substantial funding would be ‘like ******* in the wind’.
O’Connor won’t be drawn on the nature of this discussion other than he confirms the two have spoken, shared notes and both arrived at the same conclusion.
“What’s laughable about this,” he says, “Is that when he stood down they laid the blame on his ‘personal financial difficulty’ and when I stood down they tried the same trick with a different smear in an attempt to smokescreen the fact these people couldn’t run a train set let alone a ******* party.”

13-05-2008, 03:40 PM	#6 (permalink)
chartwell Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 60	Gary Bushell According to the article Bushell stood down because a £600,000 promised marketing budget never materialised - see below. Mike “Look, don’t take my word for it. To lose one mayoral candidate could be seen as unfortunate, but to lose two?” It appears that before O’Connor’s last minute arrival, a well-known journalist had stood down as mayoral candidate for the party. From all accounts it appears he had been promised a £600,000 marketing budget which, like O’Connor’s, failed to materialise. The former candidate stood down because he knew that running for Mayor without a substantial funding would be ‘like ***** in the wind’. O’Connor won’t be drawn on the nature of this discussion other than he confirms the two have spoken, shared notes and both arrived at the same conclusion. “What’s laughable about this,” he says, “Is that when he stood down they laid the blame on his ‘personal financial difficulty’ and when I stood down they tried the same trick with a different smear in an attempt to smokescreen the fact these people couldn’t run a train set let alone a ***** party.”