10 November (Part 1) - How low can he go?
The
reliably obnoxious Conservative Member for West Heath has attempted to influence an election
by implying that the Labour candidate in the Old Bexley & Sidcup
by-election represents a party of crooks.
It was notable that in
the list of crooked MPs published yesterday it was those
from Labour who went to jail while the Conservatives were by and large allowed
to quietly slip away and one might wonder at the impartiality of the judiciary
but to link his own Council colleague to criminal activity is surely several steps too far.
What has been the situation locally?
• It was a Conservative MP, in OB&S no less, who was found to have misappropriated
his expenses and kicked out of the party.
• It was a Conservative Leader of Bexley Council who received a six month
suspended jail sentence for pocketing more than he was due.
• It was a Conservative Councillor who was arrested for Misconduct in a Public
Office after authoring an obscene blog.
• It was a Conservative Councillor whose name was on a file that the police sent
to the Crown Prosecution Service. (Misconduct in a Public Office again but the
file was mysteriously lost in circumstances never officially explained.)
• It was a Conservative Member selected to be a Councillor in a safe seat who was
arrested by the police for theft.
• It was the President of The Thamesmead and Erith Conservative Association
who resigned her post because her standards of transparency and openness fell
below the required standard.
If there is a criminally inclined party in Bexley history shows that it is not Labour.