When too many of Bexley’s Councillors were old people supplementing their pensions,
Gareth Bacon stood out from the crowd. He earned himself a certain reputation
for holding down five or six public service jobs for which he was
featured in The Evening Standard but on the whole he was pretty good at his job(s).
Now that Gareth is MP for Orpington I keep half an eye on what he gets up to mainly
because a friend in Bromley is very nearly his constituent. Her back garden fence is part of the constituency boundary.
I am one of his 1,800 YouTube subscribers. The videos are reasonably well produced but
do not get many views. On local issues anything from fewer than one hundred to
going on towards 1,000. His Parliamentary performances on national issues occasionally get far more.
Now we know why his videos are decently done. They are produced by
former BBC
journalist Ray Sadri who typically charges Gareth £500 a day and a video takes about two days to put together.
Democracy comes at a price. I haven’t a clue what my MP does.
