6 April (Part 1) - Abstention it is then. Sorry Sally
When taking a look at
the newly published election candidate nominations two things stood out like a sore thumb. Some Council numbskull
had decided to split the file into its 17 component parts (wards) instead of the usual single PDF
thereby massively increasing the amount of work required to make any sort of
summary, and the ridiculously high number of candidates who had taken advantage
of the 2019 law change that allows them to withhold their address.
My immediate reaction was that I would not vote for any candidate that put
secrecy above openness but it is going to make no difference to my vote, I had
decided that I couldn’t support any Conservative unless I was assured that he or
she intended to rebel against the lying elite. (In Belvedere all the
Conservatives hide behind the new law and all the Labour candidates are honest and above board.)
However Belvedere ward is not typical. There are 112 candidates for Bexley’s 45
seats and secretive Labour exceed secretive Conservatives by more than two to
one. (28 Labour, 13 Conservative and 18 ‘Other’.)
If I took that first reaction too far I would, in another ward, find myself
voting for Craske and Read!
My voting intentions have wandered all over the place. The Conservatives are
definitely ruled out - for consistent lying obviously - but I cannot bring myself
to vote for a party whose local Vice-Chair likened me to Mosley for my
views on violent police officers and whose Secretary set out to cause me legal expenses
by sending a solicitor’s letter threatening action if I did not remove all
reference to her from this blog.
She had never been named here but her unjustified complaints against Councillors
Read and Hackett had been fully exposed. It is difficult to support a Labour
Party Leadership that cannot stamp out their rogue elements.