
TWO shamed Tory councillors on Cheshire West and Chester Council have been allowed back into their group.

Max Drury was forced to resign from the party after being found guilty of harassing a former business partner and Richard Lowe had the Conservative whip withdrawn for making a sick joke about missing Madeleine McCann.
Cllr Drury, who represents City ward, resigned from the Conservative Party ten months ago but continued as an independent.
He was criticised by District Judge Nicholas Sanders for relying on his status as a councillor when caught making threats against James Meadows and his wife Joanne through email, telephone calls and calling at their home.
Tory council leader Cllr Mike Jones said Cllr Drury, who has bipolar disorder, had since been acquitted in a second court case for harassing his next door neighbours and cleared of bringing his position into disrepute by the Standards Board for England.
He said: “He’s very apologetic. He was seriously ill at the time. He was under a huge amount of stress as a result of what this guy did to his business.
“He had to re-mortgage his house and everything else. The tablets he was on didn’t quite agree with him.”
Cllr Jones said if Cllr Drury stepped out of line again he will “get chopped”.
“He wrote to me and he’s very apologetic. His medication is now stable and he’s stable. He’s fine,” added Cllr Jones, who said people with mental health problems should be given a second chance.
In a separate case, fellow City ward representative Cllr Richard Lowe has also rejoined the Conservative group after serving a four month suspension. There had been some confusion because Tory Central Office previously said Cllr Lowe had been expelled.
Cllr Lowe was forced to apologise for “inappropriate” comments on the Facebook website in response to boasts by fellow Conservative Matt Lewis about dressing up as Madeleine McCann for a New Year’s Eve party.
Cllr Lowe wrote on the social networking site: “Is this a cunning (Baldrick style) plan to obtain the reward money? Room for one more?”
Cllr Jones said: “He’s done a lot of growing up in the last three months.”
http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/chester-news/local-chester-news/2009/06/17/shamed-chester-tories-allowed-back-into-council-conservative-group-59067-23897518/
Thursday, 08 January 2009
Matt Lewis resigned on Boxing Day as the Conservative Future Area Chairman for Staffordshire. Having clearly spent Christmas drafting his resignation letter that cited the Rock reforms as the reason for quitting, it was his behaviour over the New Year that has made TB glad to see the back of Mr Lewis:

On his Facebook page Lewis has divulged the sickening details of dressing up for a party as Madeleine McCann. What sort of sick bastards would find this funny?

To add insult to injury Lewis then went on to proudly boast about these antics to fellow CFers:

Have these people lost their minds as well as developed abysmal poor taste? If he hadn't already quit Tory Bear would be calling for resignations over this. The Conservative Party has no room for this sort of appalling behaviour and warped individuals.

Friends of Matt Lewis joined in the joke about the missing five-year-old, with one responding: 'Is this a cunning (Baldrick style) plan to obtain the reward money?'
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id197.html






