There will only be the one blog today. I have reached the age when I either attend funerals or 60th Wedding Anniversaries.
This celebration is for someone I have known since 1949.
Yesterday I received two emails within an hour of each other, both from unelected
election candidates, one very nice, the other less so.
The Green candidate (not one I have heard from before) was commenting on
yesterday’s blog and wished to say
that the Reform candidates at the count were well behaved and the email of
praise for Reform was entirely
friendly. “Reform didn’t do anything particularly odd or unusual there.”
Alexander Cleak (Reform unelected) is identified as being pleasant and positive.
I expect Reform candidates felt nervous and inevitably out of their comfort zones but “in
general showed up on stage (win or lose). They seemed pretty ordinary”. This is
not what some members of the Uni-Party were putting about.
The other email was demanding and not very friendly. I must remove certain blogs which
mention the name of the sender and it was suggested that the frequent reference
to Ben Hopton might be harassment. If the sender is not Ben Hopton, and she insists
he is not even Labour, why would the sender be concerned?
The sender was mentioned by name on Bonkers four times during the election
campaign including the once when the intention was to clarify that the blog did
not refer to her.
I know of four people who are convinced they know who Ben Hopton is, but I don’t
so I have not been able to even hint at any links to the email sender.
By a strange coincidence I was thrown off Ben’s Facebook Group at much the same time as
the complaining email arrived.
The Green candidate went on to say that among the most friendly Councillors at the count
were the Labour trio from Thamesmead East. Larry, Zainub and Abi.
I am coming around to the view that politics might be better served if we got
rid of all the Tories and Labour and replaced the Right and Left with Reform and
Greens respectively. It took 70 years from the formation of the Labour Party for
politics to degenerate to the sort of level it is at now.
We probably need another 70 years to climb out of the hole we have dug for ourselves.
Note. The blog title is also the complaining email’s title.