17 August - Out and about in Belvedere
On Friday evening while preparing the
photos for yesterday’s blog the door bell rang
and I feared it was a beggar from some charity or other flogging a monthly subscription but I was wrong; it was my
favourite Labour politician Stefano Borella with some of his colleagues at other nearby doors.
Stefano is the friendliest of fellows and we briefly discussed
the events of 16th July
when Bexley Conservatives brought dispute upon their Council by
denying the opposition the opportunity to mount an Amendment to a Motion introduced without notice.
What I really wanted to ask Stef as he towered over me by seven or eight inches
is what he thought of the worst Prime Minister of all time but obviously I could
not be that direct and only vaguely alluded to the current political
situation. Stefano is not so daft that he would provide a straight answer anyway
knowing it might appear here but I got the impression, no more than that, that
he was not totally enamoured of everything that has happened in the past 13
months. That bravado is reserved for arguments in the Council chamber.
He hopes to continue to lead his party after the tsunami that will likely hit Bexley next May. And so do I.
I was introduced to my relatively new Councillor Jeremy Fosten for the first
time too. (With the rosette in the photograph by the badly spelled Carrill Way sign.)
Stefano left the card reproduced below. The uppermost QR code leads to
bexleylabour.org.uk.
