You could not make this up. I had just finished writing an article on Pincents Hill for our local Council Topics in Tilehurst explaining the amazing tangled web of deceipt from the local West Berks Tories doing one thing and then voting a different way in council, when I was alerted to a rather interesting new twist. If you look here you will find that the consultant to Blue Living is none other than Simon Hoare, a Tory councillor from Oxfordshire, chum of David Cameron and a PPC for a seat in Cardiff at the next general election.

As I said in my article  –  you can’t trust the Tories on development.

And it turns out that Mr Hoare and Blue Living have their eyes on not just Pincents Hill but White Hart Meadow in Theale as well.

And still the West Berks and Reading West Tories want to convince us that they are on the side of the residents against the developers. You decide !