7 May - The last day for the good ones
Today we say goodbye to some good Councillors or at the very least,
Councillors who have been good to me, or perhaps just amusing.
Topping the list are Richard Diment and Sue Gower. Both with heads firmly
screwed on albeit, and in my opinion, sometimes acting against their own better judgment when
the whip demanded it. Richard I am particularly looking at you. Various highway injustices left unfixed.
I should also mention Mabel Ogundayo and Andy Dourmoush who both did good things behind the scenes without any expectation of electoral reward.
For the entertainment value Wendy Perfect and Philip Read, Wendy for the
heckling and arguing with meeting Chairmen and Philip for abusing me constantly
for being, what he presumably actually believed, that I was “a sad old Labour supporting blogger from Abbey Wood”.
I think he regarded it as some sort of game, It was fun while it lasted.
Peter Reader, whose path I rarely crossed, for always being the unflappable
gentleman and perhaps most of all, John Davey, for unwittingly naming this blog
by telling me, while being Deputy Chairman of the Transport User’s
Sub-Committee, that some of Bexley’s road designs
were Bonkers. To be absolutely fair I think he may have been referring to the TfL imposed schemes.
But most of all I shall remember John for his hilarious Tweets which caused the Leftie luvies so much
faux outrage. Unless of course they really are as humourless as their responses suggested.
To the older ones I wish you all the best in your retirement, and of the Labour
ladies, good luck in whatever you do next. To Andy, good luck in Bromley. I
missed your occasional phone calls.
I am hopeful that tomorrow I will say goodbye to a few more.