There is a letter in this week’s Worksop Guardian entitled ‘Mann is just misleading us’

The letter is reproduced in full:

I see that MP John Mann has, yet again, been trying to mislead local residents over planning issues.

As both a local resident and planning professional, I get very irritated when straightforward processes are twisted for what I assume are political ends.

Maybe it’s an attempt to cover up the fact that he has no ideas of  his own about how he thinks his Government’s housing targets (that’s right – they’re imposed on local councils from above) should be met.

I’ve read the same documents he talks about, and they don’t show major development in the villages or propose this Kilton development he keeps banging on about.

So let’s keep things in perspective, shall we, and stop this underhand campaign of disinformation.

Just what we’ve been saying all along!

John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw and purveyor of political fiction, has got himself a nice line of patter to confuse the voters.

First, he invents a scenario which is never going to happen (such as the building of 10,000 houses at Kilton Forest) then starts a high volume campaign against it.

When, inevitably, the scenario does not come to fruition, Mr Mann claims credit for campaigning against it and a victory due to his endeavours opposing the mythical project.

Does he think that Bassetlaw voters can’t see through this?

However, new house building is a worry for Mr Mann as several thousand new residents arriving in Bassetlaw with the wherewithall to purchase housing  may well dilute the traditional Labour vote, making his position as an MP decidedly dodgy come election time.

So consider his real motives when he challenges new residential properties.