YOU couldn’t make up the things some Conservative councillors say.
At the county council meeting on June 14, Tory leader, keith Mitchell, described parts of the National Health Service as “Stalinist”.
Whether he was comparing the nurses, doctors, cleaners or the people who book your appointments, to the Soviet dictator, he didn’t say.
Later in the same meeting, fellow Tory councillor Judith Heathcoat claimed the library protests were organised by “professional agitators”.
Was she referring to children’s author, Philip Pullman, Oxfordshire parents or perhaps councillors like me, I wondered?
The mask of ‘caring Conservatism’, much-loved by David Cameron, certainly slipped at County Hall that day.
JOHN TANNER, Oxford city councillor, Sunningwell Road, Oxford
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