Neville Watson: ‘I do not hold rank in the Independent Party therefore I was not representing the party's views’

RESIDENTS WILL BE ASTONISHED TO READ Neville Watson’s latest statement on the CIIP’s Discussion Board in which he refers to his acceptance of Bill Sharp’s apology, made upon his party’s behalf, regarding an ill chosen phrase on a Tory election leaflet.

Watson’s statement appears to have been written at the same time as he deleted the comment he made - so that the public can no longer see what he actually said!

The previous speculation, in this Blog’s last article (regarding the CIIP’s use of Watson as a fall-guy for this year’s election campaign) has now been given further weight as residents are now being asked to believe that nothing Neville has said on his party’s sites, or the MMM Blog, has Canvey Island Independent Party approval.

As the local election campaign moves into its final phase, following the Easter break, voters have still yet to see a single word from the CIIP communicating its plans for Canvey Island Town Council  – or its intentions regarding the island’s separation from the mainland.

Strangely, Neville has also been uncharacteristically quiet in commenting on the MMM Blog’s latest posts, designed to provide an opportunity for residents to interact with their Conservative Party election candidates. Perhaps that is because, as he ‘has no rank,’ he would be hard-pressed into justifying his political intervention in wards other than his own.

But that has not stopped Watson criticising other Tory candidates, throughout this election campaign. After all, Bill Sharp is campaigning as a Central Ward candidate – whilst Neville is standing in Winter Gardens.

All the evidence, including Watson’s own comments regarding his being the CIIP’s Spokesperson, contradicts his latest statement – so voters can only assume that, until he accepted Bill Sharp’s apology, he was indeed the CIIP’s PR man; but, since then (and very quickly), he has been removed from that post.

It now remains to be seen whom the CIIP will find to replace Watson as their Public Relations Officer, tasked with fielding the public’s questions – or whether voters will at last be given the opportunity of questioning individual CIIP candidates, and their leader, Dave Blackwell, on the party’s discussion board…