As an election approaches I expect we will get more of these
attempts to persuade us that Bexley Conservatives have done a good job in the three
years since Councillor Ball and his gang were flung out of office. Was “Lesnes
Abbey Ward taken for granted by Labour”. Well yes; more like being taken for a
ride, a very expensive ride with tax increases reaching 17%. But sometimes I wonder
if that might be preferable to having the ward crapped on from a great height by
the likes of John Davey and his henchman Peter Craske.
Davey specialises in standing idly by, possibly wringing his hands, but always
doing nothing. When he was first elected and the council asked for suggestions
on how they might save money I emailed him an idea. He replied saying he fully
agreed but he wouldn’t be able to put the idea forward as he wasn’t sure if
it would be supported by his colleagues. I didn’t read the rest of his message
because I sort of exploded with the words ‘this is pure Tony Blair’ which
believe me was not intended to be a compliment. It was a pivotal moment and last straw;
I felt I would never be able to vote Conservative again.
Since then we know Davey stands idly by while motorists are illegally ticketed by the
parking gestapo and that as Vice-Chairman of the Transport Scrutiny Sub-Committee he
was prepared to say that he didn’t believe the official justification for the
changes proposed for Abbey Road yet he did
nothing to put a stop to the madness. He stood idly by while the cretinous Craske
signed away half a million pounds. How useless can you get?
The leaflet features the Conservative candidate for Erith & Thamesmead and proclaims
“Erith & Thamesmead need stronger parliamentary leadership”? Funny word
leadership, I thought M.P.s were supposed to represent us not lead us. It’s the
government in the shape of the P.M. and the cabinet who tries to lead us, is it not? If
our present M.P. successfully led us we’d all presumably have our snouts firmly in
the trough. I see that John Austin (Labour M.P. for Erith & Thamesmead) is in the
Telegraph again today (13 December) for grabbing as much cash as he can over the last few months.
“It’s time for a change of Government.” I’d prefer a total change of
direction myself and the Conservatives show every sign of treading a too similar path to
Brown and his cronies. Labour has made this country a basket case not just because of its
cloud cuckoo land economics but because freedoms are being snuffed out right left and
centre and from quangos to Brussels democracy flies out of the window. We need someone to
fix that and Cameron is not that man.
“Join us and make the difference.” I was a member of the Conservative Party when
I first moved to Bexley but I couldn’t possibly join it now. I would probably join a
conservative party if we had one but all we have is Labour-Lite. In any case membership of
the local party was a waste of money. It didn’t cost much to join but any event of
interest carried a hefty extra admission fee.
Lesnes Abbey Conservatives have done nothing that can be seen by the average man in the
street to have improved the quality of life, far from it. What else would you expect from
a bunch who cannot even print their phone numbers correctly? John Davey says his number
is 0203 417 4966. You try dialling 4174966 from a London number (Lesnes Abbey
ward mainly has London numbers). It goes nowhere. If he and his cronies can’t understand
that his number is 34174966 and that the code from other places is 020 not 0203 how the
hell can any of them be trusted with more complicated concepts like deciding where to make
economies out of the thousand pounds and more he extracts from every household each year?