19 April (Part 1) - Blackfen & Lamorbey again
I
have been hauled over the coals - no that is putting it far too strongly -
for not noticing that Graham Holland is standing for Reform UK in Blackfen &
Lamorbey. It does of course throw my reasoning two days ago into total disarray
He was a Conservative Councillor in Bexley.
Graham has an interesting history. He had been a successful
and popular Councillor for
24 years when in 2001 it was discovered that he was two months
behind with his Council Tax payments. It was no big deal and his local party
chairman said he must set up a standing order and that would be the end of the matter.
Councillor Holland did that and went on to win the selection process preceding the 2002
election. The one that saw the Conservatives defeated by Labour.
Graham beat and displaced the Council Leader Mike Slaughter in that selection process
which upset the faceless goons who run local political parties. What could
they do about the loss of their Leader?
Easy for a duplicitous Tory apparatchik. Renege on the agreement with Graham
and sack him for missing a Council Tax payment. An early example of Never Trust a Bexley Tory.
The foregoing history lesson is a combination of
an old Bonkers’ blog, the
News Shopper and
Wikipedia
- which has not yet caught up on the fact that David Leaf is Leader - until May anyway.
I am sure that Independent Councillor James Hunt will lose no time in pointing out that
behind the scenes, Bexley Conservatives have been run by a bunch of untrustworthy wrong ’uns.