1 August - Common assault in Crayford
The commotion caused by Bexley Council’s decision to
hire a drag artist to host their children’s Story Hour was a little more
exciting than my random lucky dip
into the three hour video suggested.
Just
after the one hour 34 minute mark
into the YouTube video
a bad tempered individual wearing a security uniform makes an unprovoked attack on a man holding a microphone.
The standard of photography is appalling and it is difficult to be sure who the
guard is working for but he appears to later hide inside Timpson’s shoe repair shop and may,
or may not, bear a Sainsbury’s ID. Even on my big TV it is too blurred to
make out. The final letter appears to be a y. Surely not Bexley?
As is to be expected of our utterly useless police force, they did nothing in
response to the assault and the protesters did nothing to help themselves by
resorting to some particularly bad language.
Why no one at Bexley Council has the intellect to realise, especially after the protests in
Bristol and elsewhere, that unnecessarily bringing Drag Queens to Bexley to preach their
gospel to small children may not be the best idea. I have yet to understand it.
What is wrong with librarians reading stories?
Maybe I should not be surprised, the worst management always seems to gravitate towards the public services.
An impoverished Bexley Council must truly be Bonkers to walk into such a
controversy, not to mention spending our money on it.
With thanks to a reader who has the patience to trawl through the video.
Photographs by permission of Hugh Neal (Arthur Pewty’s Maggot Sandwich) who was by coincidence in Bexleyheath at the right time.