11 December - In a flap over flag waving
Someone who claims Council connections and who clearly doesn’t like overt displays
of patriotism wrote to me claiming that there has been a bit of a bust up among Bexley
Conservatives under their new Leader David Leaf. The dispute was over the flags
that adorn many of Bexley’s streets.
It is said, rightly or wrongly, I do not know for sure, that Councillor Leader Leaf
wanted to have the flags removed but his colleagues, Councillors Davey and Brooks in particular, were having none of it.
I am inclined to think my informant is an extreme lefty because she claims the flags
were put up by Tommy Robinson and he and his supporters are “cretins”.
Personally I am somewhere in the middle on this. I cannot see how the display of
national symbols can be intrinsically wrong. let alone cretinous, and felt that
the Labour Group’s
Press Release was a concerted attempt at electoral suicide in Bexley but at the
same time, after two or three months of flag waving, there is no denying that
they are looking tired and tatty and their time must have passed.
That is why I removed the St. George’s Cross from the Bonkers Banner about ten days ago.
Now I would be happy enough to see the street flags gone, i.e. I am just a
little inclined towards David Leaf
but regard money spent on their removal as a very big waste, which arguably edges me towards the Labour camp