A
Conservative Councillor friend sent me this image of their Longlands candidate
posted by Old Bexley & Sidcup Labour to their Facebook page. He wondered what the
Hell they were playing at posting such an unflattering picture and so do I. Will it do their cause any good and what
would the Green candidate make of it? There must be
a Paris fashion pun there
somewhere but I have not found it yet.
A Reform UK candidate friend asked me who I thought a mutual businesswoman
friend might vote for, so taking the bull by the horns I asked her. Three votes
for Reform are in the post. (Belvedere ward.)
A former Mayor is still busy with his leaflets in Blackfen & Lamorbey. I found
a tenth one on Facebook his morning.
Also on Facebook the Conservatives have been trying to convince everyone that the 120ish thousand pounds spent on
the Story Teller cinema was not Socialism in action.
Louie French MP got close to telling us that spending taxpayers’ money on saving
a private business was a good thing and he had his supporters.
Would he advocate keeping other businesses afloat?
The dying public houses for example.
He is of course historically correct. Nationalisation can
very occasionally be a good thing but
the last time a Conservative did it successfully was in 1971 when Louie’s illustrious
predecessor, Ted Heath, rescued Rolls Royce Aero Engines division from bankruptcy
when the development cost of the RB211 by-pass jet
engine was about to bring them down. I remember it well. My father’s best friend
had spent years persuading them that three turbine spools each operating at
optimum speed would provide a quieter more efficient engine than anything that had gone before.
He was right, but I don’t think rescuing a cinema is in the same league.
With most of the day spent
hunting down a computer problem that looked like
taking Bonkers off line that's the best election news I’ve found. Must do better!