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3 May - Now they are scraping the beer barrel

Johnson Rayner A Labour leaflet dropped on to my doormat quite early this morning, I suspect that Councillor Francis was exploiting his old man’s feet again. Maybe because I can be an awkward old bugger myself the message did not have the intended effect on me.

That’s because I couldn’t care less that at the end of a long day in Johnson’s house cum office he met up with the people he had been with many times already that day and he sliced a piece of cake. Sticking a candle into it does not turn the gathering into a party.

Similarly, trudging the streets of Durham with a gang of supporters all day and ending it with a beer and a curry is not a party either. If I was interested in law breaking I would be asking where Starmer stayed overnight at a time when my son could not visit his mother in Glasgow because there was nowhere to legally stay the night.

The ‘criminality’ was imposing such stupid rules on a brain-washed public. When has a government ever before banned lovers of all ages from getting together? That is why, if one insists on voting on national issues in a local election, one should not vote for Johnson’s party. But hang on a minute, which party leader wanted all the Covid lunacy imposed sooner, harder and for longer?

On #partygate itself it seems to me that it is Johnson who came clean about birthday cake and it is Starmer who has sought to hide the truth. If his gathering was entirely legal, and I am inclined to think it was, why the need to lie about the ginger one being there?

Esther, Daniel and Sally remain the best candidates by far for Belvedere and their fourth leaflet was almost certainly imposed from above. Do we really want to be represented by people stupid enough to publicly seek the support of someone involved with the demolition of the wardְ’s (and borough’s) oldest pub, ripping up trees and driving neighbours from their homes? In other wards there are Conservative candidates far more worthy of your vote.

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TweetThe Independent candidate in Sidcup (#tonyofsidcup) generously listed some this morning. I suppose hoping for 22 Labour and 22 Conservative Councillors and an Independent keeping them apart is too much to hope for? Far too much unfortunately.

Tony is absolutely right on one thing. Councillors O’Neill and Craske have pretty much single-handedly shaped Bexley and I struggle to see significant improvements. Things that have become far worse and more expensive are legion. The Leader must have had similar thoughts when she too struggled to answer a public question on that very subject.

I am beginning to think that apathy might determine the local elections in Bexley. Normally the number of visitors to this blog rises quite noticeably before an election but I detect none of that this time around.

 

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