23 April (Part 1) - All friends together
I
collect photos that look as though they may one day become useful. I wasn’t absolutely sure where this one came from
by the time I studied it closely but it may have been from Councillor Read’s
Twitter feed after initially missing it on @bexleynews.
@bexleynews don’t always lie outright, they often skirt around an untruth in a way
designed to deceive the gullible while protecting themselves from the extremities
of universal criticism.
But this was just an innocent picture, right? It is of a gathering behind the
Guru Nanak Darbar Sikh Temple in Belvedere last weekend. There are rather too many beards on
display but most of the faces nevertheless look quite familiar to me. I have Photoshopped
them a little and blown them up for a better view.
I think I can name some of them. The bushy beard under a
yellow turban in the uppermost of the two photos bears an amazing similarity to the man who
shoved me around outside the Leather Bottle in 2016. It wasn’t for the first
time and I have always suspected that he is Kulvinder Singh. To his left are
Belvedere Conservative candidates Vinny Poon and Christine Bishop. Then we have the
voluble David Leaf and Councillor John Davey.
Beyond him if my eyeballs have not let me down is the third Belvedere candidate, the less than friendly Will Dorgu.
In
the next photo the man in white is unknown to me with another
Conservative election candidate alongside. He is Aaron Newbury about whom the
least said the better. Next to him is Councillor Brian Bishop and then
three bearded gentlemen.
I feel I have seen the first two before. Probably the first of them is the wheelbarrow man pictured
on the left outside the Leather Bottle with six years of additional beard growth. I
got the impression at the time that he was Kulvinder Singh’s father but I could be wrong.
The other occasion would be in Woolwich Road when a pair looking
rather like them tried to block my car into a side road and one became very
prominent in my rear view mirror and occasionally alongside as I was chased down the A2016 and back.
Kulvinder Singh has been
photographed before in Council company but arguably in
innocent circumstances. This time I am not so sure. What possessed the
Vice-Chairman of the Planning Committee to stand right next to a Director of Dhadda
Estates? The company which submits so many unwelcome and contentious
applications to Bexley Council and eventually persuades them of the merit of
developments that appear to have little or none. I have never been sure why.
I think some more enquiries are in order.
Leather Bottle related blogs.
Woolwich Road related blogs.