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News and Comment February 2026

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10 February - The blocked bridleway, the bashed BMW and the boy from Bexleyheath

Ye Olde Leather Bottle
Footpath blocked Footpath signFour days ago Bonkers wondered what had happened to Footpath 11 and its sign which I have not photographed since 2018.

From the Cabinet Member via an intermediary came news that the developer who has constantly raised two fingers to the local population is now being pursued through the Courts by Bexley Council. The ultimatum contained within the Community Protection Order expired last September.

Knowing how long legal cases that do not involve hurty words usually take it may be some time before there is more news.


Harrow Manorway
Traffic light demolished Air bags deployed Neglected since 2017If you have ever waited for a bus for more than a few minutes outside Abbey Wood station you are sure to have seen an idiot weaving through the traffic far too fast determined to get to Knee Hil before anyone else or to get through the pedestrian lights before they go red again. They react to a button press in 35 seconds.

Yesterday morning there were two probably unrelated incidents to be seen. A pedestrian controlled traffic light was smashed to the ground along with one of Bexley Councilְ’s new litter bins, split open. Vandalism or trafficc accident is impossible to say.

Eighty metres to the North were two police cars and a van surrounding a BMW that had been involved in a smash with the air bags deployed.

While taking a look I photographed the blocked pavement opposite the station in Felixstowe Road. It has been like that since the new station opened on 17th October 2017. Will Bexley Council take itself to Court for blocking a footpath for even longer than its favourite developer on Heron Hill?


Delusional
Yesterday three related things happened. I received a tax bill for nearly £200 for doing what the Government asked me to do. Save the planet by buying an electric car in 2018. EVs were until Labour created its massive black hole exempt from Vehicle Excise Duty. Later in the day I watched the electrician’s YouTube channel eFixx which told me that the government planned to tax me on the income from selling electricity back to the grid under the Feed in Tariff guarantees made to me in 2011 when I did what the government asked of me. That is install solar panels which cost an astonishing £12,000 back then. (I already knew that they were going to reduce the promised link to inflation.) Labour is synonymous with lying and cheating and always has been.

So just like diesel car owners in the past a shameful government is going to steal a large chunk of my income for doing what it asked me to do.

Then to cap it all the shameless Labour MP for Bexleyheath put out a statement at the behest of the whips to the effect that victims of Jeffery Epstein must be given justice as a matter of priority but no mention of the much more numerous victims of Pakistani Rape Gangs who were at first ignored and now have nothing but a series of unfulfilled promises.

How can he possibly say that a priority is the cost of living crisis and restoring the country’s reputation on the world stage?

Daniel Francis must surely be certifiably mad,
MP's letter MP's letter

Earlier this week I received an email from my Labour Councillor Jeremy Fosten who had read one of my blogs and offered some additional information. It made me think about what I have wondered about before. Does a decent young chap like Jeremy really believe that his party is doing anything to help the people of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

How can they? I have personally assembled a list of 260 things that this Government has done in only 19 painful months all of which are easily argued to be detrimental to the wellbeing of this country and its citizens.

My hatred for Keir Starmer and his Cabinet knows no bounds. I am against the death penalty mainly because the police and judiciary are occasionally corrupt but come the revolution I may have to change my mind.

 

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