29 April - Councillor John Davey. Tweet or Twit?
So
Felix has gone
and John Davey is back following
suspension for an
ill-judged Tweet. People have strong views about him.
Councillor John Davey took a dim view of Iranian hostage Nazarin
Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s criticism of Boris Johnson and Co. who she saw as prolonging
her wrongful imprisonment and declared she was inclined to support the Labour
Party. I suppose one cannot really blame her for such a reaction although
perhaps the timing of it was a little unfortunate.
Joker John was expelled from the Tory party for his comment which seemed to me to be a little
extreme given that a Cabinet Member known to have published obscene and
libellous comments about four Bexley residents remains in post but for reasons
unknown John Davey’s Tweet provoked a much stronger reaction as has his return.
The Labour Group on Bexley Council has published
their longest Press Release ever which provides a fulsome
critique of Councillor Davey’s comment and the background to their complaint. (PDF.) Extract below.
Like most people I was wholly supportive of Nazarin and her husband in their
struggle for justice against Government intransigence - the failure to return the money owed to Iran - and
blogged about it more than once but like John was
disappointed by her comments.
Maybe because
I have been called a racist
by a Labour activist - fascist too by another - for totally truthful comment about
my MP I no longer take such accusations as seriously as I should and my opinion of this incident
remains much as it was last October.
Now, if you excuse me I must go and mend my Nigerian neighbour’s fence. Why can’t we all live amicably together?