Sarah Teather and Brent Cross

I haven't done any posting on Sarah Teather's dishonesty for a while so I thought I should mention Brent Cross. Before election, Teather made out that she was an extremely strong campaigner against the development. She claimed to be against the development here and here and here and here. She was particularly scathing about Boris Johnson's neglect of the issue, saying:

"The Mayor is asleep at the wheel. Instead of giving this controversial and divisive scheme the extra scrutiny it needs he has waved it through with barely a second thought. .... People in Brent will feel they have been stabbed in the back by the man who is supposed to serve their interests."

John Denham, the Labour Local Government Secretary, duly called the plan in for further consideration. Following the election he was replaced (with of course Liberal Democrat support) by the Tory Eric Pickles. Pickles gave the go ahead to this monstrous development within weeks of taking office. Some people might say that he had "waved it through without giving it a second thought."

Oddly, I can find no reference to the Pickles decision on Sarah Teather's web site. She seems to have made no protest about the "controversial and divisive scheme" now that the election is over.