Today was probably not a good one for catching up with Mick Barnbrook in his
favourite watering hole in Bexley. He told me how his plain, and probably not
politically correct, speaking on Twitter had increased his followers from around
800 to 4,500 in just four or five weeks and how he was looking forward to the
trial of his Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay for electoral fraud which is scheduled for later this month.
As has been the case in a score of other cases, Mick is the complainant and as
you might imagine he had quite a tussle with Kent Police before they took him seriously.
When I got home I found that not totally dissimilar things had been going on in Bexley.
Councillor Philip Read may be trying to emulate Mick’s Twitter trick but less
successfully than him. The Tweet
reproduced here yesterday has provided him with
a splash in the News Shopper but as yet no additional follwers.
On top of that two people, maybe more, have reported Read for his constant
insulting of residents to Bexley Council’s Monitoring Officer, From there the complaint should go to the Code of Conduct Committee, but will it?
Bexley
Conservatives are accused of emulating those in Thanet too, although maybe on a
smaller scale. They have been reported to the police and the Electoral
Commission for allegedly distributing their message via fake Twitter accounts.
The Twitter accounts are obviously fake and the message is very obviously
pro-Tory. Bexley Tories may be responsible for it, they are certainly capable of
almost any dirty trick you can imagine.
I still wonder how the piles of UKIP votes at the 2014 count seemed to grow
smaller over time and not larger and why were certain Conservative Councillors going around saying
that Northumberland Heath
had
been lost to UKIP when the final result was a comfortable Tory win.
But now what have they been up to? I suppose
we will have to wait for the police to investigate it. It may be a long wait.
The following has gone to the Electoral Commission.
I have attached screen shots that I have taken which contain pro-Con
anti-Lab
material, which is not watermarked, being circulated by numerous fake or bot Twitter accounts.
At this time it’s impossible to say who is responsible but in
order for Bexley to have a fair election then the laws must be adhered to and
this includes social media campaigns.
We have seen these tactics being used during the EU referendum, and now they have found their way to Bexley and it
needs challenging immediately.
I have spoken with Mr. David Easton at Bexley
Council and I have also reported this to the police at Bexleyheath Police
Station where it has now been passed onto Inspector Kevin Hebdon.
Please find attachments.
If dirty tricks are your game, vote Conservative tomorrow. It will give Bonkers something to do for the next four years.