9 March (Part 2) - Third time lucky!
At the end of last month
Bonkers briefly mentioned the rumours circulating about the leadership
of Reform UK’s Bexley branch. It seemed likely that Tom Bright who was their
Parliamentary candidate in Bexleyheath & Crayford in 2024 was on the way out.
Whilst I believed It to be fairly certain, no one would definitively say so. But now they have.
The stepping aside is for personal reasons; obviously.
Tom Bright will follow the dreadful Fothergill woman, who was Chairman in Old
Bexley & Sidcup until last Spring, into political oblivion, or maybe like her, the failed Councillors’ life raft which is Restore Britain.
I know who is going to replace Mr. Bright but it is
not my place to make the announcement before the new man does. A much better choice in my
opinion who I have met a few times and he lives in the middle of Bexleyheath
rather than far flung Sevenoaks or Woolwich.
I expect to see the new Chairman take a seat on Bexley Council in May bringing
with him much needed business experience.
9 March (Part 1) - Local boy dun good!
Only five days ago Councillor
James Hunt floated the idea that
he might stand as an Independent Councillor in
Blackfen & Lamorbey next May and he tempted me into a rare look at Facebook
where I saw he was getting some support. However I don’t get along with Facebook
because I can only rarely
find anything again, and that is the situation right now. Perhaps his supporters
have had second thoughts and withdrawn their encouraging comments!
You may wish to spend a couple of minutes catching up with him on video. He and
his parents still live where he was born and bred.
Blackfen & Lamorbey is a ward where Independents are in with a chance as the
late Mick Barnbrook showed in 2014. Only narrowly edged out by UKIP who were on a roll at the time.
At a personal level I would be happy to see James push Peter Craske aside. Long
term readers may recall the infamous Obscene Blog in which a Council insider accused
me of committing lewd acts in the old Civic Offices and the Cinema car park
opposite. Before the police traced the offender, James came around to my
house to apologise on behalf of the Council. Well maybe not exactly that as he
probably had no such authority to do so, but he was as disgusted by it as most
people were. To this day I have no idea if he knew if the obscenities were the work of a ward
colleague and his apology has never been mentioned here before.
Revealing it today cannot damage his relations with the Conservative party any
more and it can only demonstrate that he is far more worthy of your vote than they are.
Common decency in a politician is not as common as it should be.