The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
12 November (Part 2) - Bexley’s northern outpost. Going down hill fast
In
the whole of my 30 years in Abbey Wood - technically Belvedere but Abbey
Wood is much closer - I have never felt more depressed about the place.
Years of Council neglect and central government policies have changed it out of
recognition and £4·2 million of new flower beds and stone features in Lesnes
Abbey Park has done nothing whatsoever to lift my mood.
If I counted correctly there were seven knifings of various severity
within a couple of miles of home over a period of 13 days less than a month ago. Not long before
someone was bashed to a pulp with baseball bats less than ten minute’s walk
away. Overnight the new Sainsbury’s appears to have become a victim unless
perhaps a shopping trolley careered out of control within the store.
Meanwhile I hear that the attention the area has been given since September by
the police and Greenwich Council is likely to end soon for lack of evidence of bad behaviour.
When I tell my country bumpkin relatives what goes on - my son in Wiltshire
doesn’t see the need to lock his doors - I am asked why I stay here. They have a
good point but who else will look after the old lady in East Ham?
Photographs by Brian Barnett. @thamesmeadnews