CONSERVATIVE attempts to portray themselves as a party that’s ready to run the city council in Derby has been rather undone.
It seems Derby’s Tories can’t even find enough people from within their own ranks to contest the 17 seats up for grabs in next year’s local elections in Derby.
To enable them to field a full slate they’ve had to resort to running an event at the Council House to sign up wanabee councillors without any political affinity whatsoever.
It’s a damning indictment of the Tory group’s ability to attract Derby people to join their cause and puts some perspective on the apparent 'resurgence' in popularity of the Tories.
Of course Derby’s Tory group has already demonstrated its willingness to take anybody into their party to artificially swell their numbers.
In the last few years they’ve welcomed five disgruntled defectors from other political parties that electors had voted in believing they represented contrary views to the Conservative Party.
Among the defectors are the Conservative Mayor, Sean Marshall, who was originally elected as a Lib Dem, and the Tory shadow cabinet member Amar Nath, who won his current Normanton seat as a Labour member.
Tory backbencher Frank Leeming has switched allegiance five times since he first joined the council, while Phil Ingall, also elected for Labour, switched to the Conservatives in 2008.
The shenanigans of Derby’s Conservative Party is making a mockery of local democracy and this latest episode is yet another example of their unsuitability for public office
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