1 September - London is finished. So is BiB
And it is tempting to add that London’s fate is well deserved.
If a vote for Sadiq Khan doesn’t kill it directly then his Covid related activities aided and abetted
by the most incompetent Government of my lifetime surely will. Keep off public
transport, pay £15 a day to use your car but get back to work right now or the
country will go bust. What sort of mixed message is that?
I think it is more than likely that London will slowly die. Who would want to travel
into or even live in Khan’s hell hole? Almost daily stabbings, everyone expected
to travel by bike and journey times for most of us increased three fold compared to
peak lockdown in March and April. Politicians know that slower traffic means a
declining economy; why else do you think they propose an 80 m.p.h. national speed
limit every few years only to be thwarted by the ignorant who have wormed their
way into positions of power?
How many cycling commuters will be left
riding during prolonged periods of rain or
after their steeds are stolen? Incidentally, as someone who had to drive daily
throughout the lockdown I came to the conclusion that it was not pedal cyclists
who were the menaces on the road but their powered brethren.
Instead
of recognising that efficient transport systems are a prerequisite of a thriving economy,
the idiot minister Grant Shapps provided £250 million to lunatic Councils to encourage
them to block the capital’s arteries.
I used to think Shapps was one of the least stupid of the Conservative ministers but last Friday I heard him - several times
- relishing the idea that people breaking his irrational Covid rules will get
a criminal record. Is that the sort of Government I voted for? Definitely not,
it makes me ashamed to have called myself a Conservative all my life.
It’s a tragedy for the country and the opposition parties show every sign of being worse.
Nothing would persuade me to vote for Starmer.
I have had enough of it and as has probably been obvious for a year or two I really cannot be
bothered with London and Bexley-is-Bonkers any more. The time when Bexley
Council committed criminal acts - examples on request - and allowed vulnerable
residents to die due to neglect and penny pinching have probably gone so maybe
the last eleven years have achieved something. On the other hand I no longer go
looking under their carefully placed stones so who knows?
My thoughts have turned towards getting out of London for my remaining years
and a very few steps have been taken towards that end already. The loft is being
progressively emptied of accumulated rubbish and the days when there would be no
more than one bag of rubbish in the green bin have definitely gone. Bits of
carpet, a pillow, old suitcases and even a TV set have gone in the green bin in recent weeks.
On a similar mission I hauled a suitcase full of books to the Oxfam shop in
Greenwich at the weekend, my first trip on a train since 6th June. Almost
no one was wearing a mask and the reason eventually became clear. The mask
rebels were going to the Freedom Rally in Trafalgar Square, the one where Piers Corbyn was
fined £10,000 but Extinction Rebellion, Black Lives Matter and the Muslims
marching down Oxford Street were not.
If authoring Bexley-is-Bonkers has taught me one thing it is that the police are
irredeemably corrupt to the very core and a minority of Councillors are extraordinary liars.
It’s time I packed up this blogging business before I become any more bitter about
the authorities that are intent on steering this once great country on to the rocks.
There was a scheduled 30 minute wait for the train back
from Greenwich so I jumped on a bus handily waiting outside the station and
the journey home showed me how a Loony Left Council was spending their share of Shapp’s £250 million.
Hold ups all the way. It would have been quicker to wait for the train. Don’t gloat, Bexley has plans to do the same.
On the 15th of this month (BiB’s 11th birthday) this once daily blog which at its peak saw up to 50,000
hits a day will draw to some sort of conclusion. It is nothing like that busy now
that there is not a regular supply of Council scandal to report. To be fair and
honest as BiB always tried to be, 50,000 was exceptional and four or five
thousand was nearer the mark.
I am undecided at present whether to take BiB off line in two weeks time or leave
it for a while. Probably the latter but it is more than likely that my various @bexley-is-bonkers.co.uk
email addresses will cease to operate and the only means of contact will be via the Contact form.
Readers who have become friends over the years will be given an alternative
email address and regular readers known to me are welcome to to ask for it.