Today in a House of Commons Debate, John Mann said ” I thank the Minister for that answer, and I know that the ministerial team will be keen to visit Serlby Park three-to-18 school, as it has recently knocked back a Tory council attempt to close it down.”

Erm, didn’t we just explain this, that it was the Labour controlled County Council that put Serlby Park school on the closure list and that it was the Tory controlled council who removed it from any threat of closure?

I’m sure that the pupils, staff and parents of Serlby Park School will be less than delighted to find that their school has once again become an unwilling  pawn in Mann’s continuing efforts at self-preservation (the SELF word again) in the face of a growing Tory vote in Bassetlaw.

How he can possibly believe that misleading the electorate on a regular basis and trotting out the same old fantasies will get him re-elected is astonishing.

Except, perhaps, by those voters who let the Worksop Guardian do their thinking for them. A band of believers set to diminish greatly as that peurile pamphlet is about to start charging the good people of Worksop a fiver to access their website.