29 May - Flooding Bexley with dishonest slogans
Please don’t laugh too loudly but I had a free ticket for the Oval today. I left the cricket ground when they flashed a weather radar picture up on the screen and took the tube to Tottenham Court Road where
I hoped to buy some new shoes. The last pair, Clark’s, had literally broken into two parts after less than a month of occasional wear.
The weather radar underestimated the problem, a thunderstorm was raging
over Oxford Street and I turned tail for home where a detour was necessary. The places where it has flooded for the past 30 years and more were well and truly flooded again,
worse than shown in these photographs taken an hour later.
But it could have been worse, further north Eastern Way is
completely blocked and the diversionary route via Yarnton Way is flooded too.
None of Bexley Council’s failures were mentioned by Leader Teresa O’Neill in
her Conservative Home article which praises her election victory.
Bexley
Council’s election campaign was dishonest, the Leaders of Bexley Council are
dishonest so it is only what one must expect.
In the Conservative Home article Teresa O’Neill claims credit for their main
campaign catch phrase. It may be thoroughly dishonest, Bexley Labour’s leadership is a long way from
being hard left but most people won’t know that.
Five of my north London relatives have been life-long Labour supporters but not
any more. Since Jeremy Corbyn came on the scene they have all voted
Conservative, one to the extent that he ‘picks fights’ with Labour canvassers
challenging them over the perceived extremism and anti-Semitism.
As if that is not a trend that might swing elections to the right a couple of Lib
Dem supporting relatives - to the extent they have been Council election
candidates in the past - no longer vote Lib Dem because of what they see as
that party’s totally dishonest reaction to Brexit. Presumably some erstwhile
supporters still recognise what the abbreviation Dem stands for.
In
such an environment Bexley Conservatives were pushing at a half opened door.
There was probably no need to lie about the ‘Hard Left’ or to allege that Labour
“trades in fears and lies” and “votes against improvements”. I didn’t see a
single lie in Labour’s election campaign and whilst
the Tories’ Manifesto was
not unreasonable by their standards their Social Media campaign was close to being 100% lie.
But the lying paid off.