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.
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?