“I would like to thank the Labour run Newham Council, backed I am absolutely sure by the national Labour party for completely and utterly killing off our city. In a purely political act, the Labour party have destroyed any chance we had of portraying our city as anything other than the poor, downtrodden, dirty dump that the everyone seems to think we are.

The Labour party is supposed to be for the working class. Yet they have, in this move, hurt the working class of Stoke on Trent more than any Tory policy has done in a hundred years.

They should be utterly ashamed but of course will not give a toss.”