22 November (Part 2) - Bexley News. A reliable source of misinformation, propaganda and deliberate falsehoods
In terms of politics I haven’t got an awful lot in common with my own Labour
ward Councillor Daniel Francis but there is one philosophy on which we appear to be
absolutely as one. If you don’t go around telling fibs then the likelihood is
that you will not be contradicted, except perhaps by shameless liars and the ignorant.
There was a case in point this afternoon.
It
all started when the Deputy Leader of the Conservative opposition in Croydon and
Councillor for Shirley South, Jason Cummings, argued with a Croydon resident that his Council’s bankruptcy was not similar to Bexley’s
predicament because Bexley’s was due to Covid and Croydon’s was not.
Councillor Francis posted a correction and backed it up with an extract from the Auditor’s report
which confirmed that Bexley Council was in trouble by the end of the last financial year.
Poking my nose in where it may not have been wanted I provided a link to an audio clip
of the Auditor saying the same thing.
(Click the left hand Tweet below to listen.)
So there is ample proof that what the Croydon Councillor said was
ill-informed or in plain English, wrong! Bexley’s Auditor said so both in writing
and broadcast to the world on a webcast.
Bexley was in trouble last Spring.
End of the matter? Not a bit of it.
Knowing absolutely that Croydon Cummings might need an eye-test, what did Bexley Tories propaganda machine do? It
endorsed the mistaken comment by Reweeting it. Rarely a true word from Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Not ignorance but shameless, a disgrace to honest Councillors everywhere.