24 May - No arguing, I’m in charge
It’s
a long line; Peter Catterall, Simon Windle, Rob Leitch, Louie French, arguably Alex Sawyer and
most recently Felix Di Netimah. All are Bexley Conservatives who suddenly upped
sticks and left Teresa O’Neill’s ruling cabal.
One of them told me face to face and in some detail why he had decided not to be
a Councillor any more. Another emailed his desire that I should continue to
scrutinise the Council and yet another had a similar conversation to the first
but with a third party who passed it on to me.
None could get on with a domineering Leader. Through an intermediary once
again but written by the man from Crayford only two days ago; “The Leader of the group and I clashed on a great many
things. She won and I lost. That’s it.”
Teresa O’Neill does not like people who disagree with her and “criticism of
Councillors” is a matter for the police as I Iearned the hard way. (See below.) But she makes
the well paid appointments and money always talks.
I was accused of threatening arson and violence because of the use of the metaphor “Pitchforks and Flaming Torches”. The truth was that I quoted the Erith based Maggot Sandwich blog which continues to host the same words. The police later apologised to me for heeding the Leader’s misinformation but she did not.