[g jones]

This was the double post a while back (I found it);

RESIGN NOW
From the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, first published Monday 8th Jan 1996.

IS it not high time that Hugh Hammond Heffner Neil did the decent thing and resigned as the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate in Hyndburn?

Barely a day goes by without some statement or other being issued by him, where he repeatedly claims that his CVs are correct "as everyone knows." This is obviously wrong, as the many articles in the Press have shown.

From the start, Mr Neil has claimed that only a small group were working against him, but that has now taken a nasty turn, as he is now claiming that a couple of racist bigots were responsible.

This is an outrageous statement to make, and he should first reveal exactly who these two are, and secondly apologise publicly for the foul slur on their good names.

If he fails to do this, then presumably he has only himself to blame for what may follow.

G G BROADHURST, Sharples Street, Accrington.

QUESTIONABLE ATTRIBUTES
From the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, first published Thursday 18th Jan 1996.

THE astonishing Hugh Neil affair has left a number of high level Tories with a considerable amount of egg on their faces. Quite how the Conservative candidate for Hyndburn managed to evade exposure for so long is not only a mystery, but an acute embarrassment for Central Office which approved him and the local association which selected him.

To its credit, Hyndburn set about unloading Mr Neil as soon as it became clear he had enough skeletons in his cupboard to launch several pathology labs. Once he had played his highest card - the much-feared rascist accusation - and had that one well and truly trumped, he slung his hook.

Of course, there are those who believe that Mr Neil had all the attributes required to be a politician, not the least being an ability to lie through his back teeth while staring you straight in the eye.

The defence rests.