26 April - At last; another sign that there is an election due - click image for a Conservative election address
I’d
expected to see more election literature through my letterbox by now; a neighbour received an A3
sized leaflet from Labour but a copy didn’t reach me and I have had to wait to see
anything other than the criticism of local council tax increases and recycling policies from
Labour’s parliamentary candidate delivered to me on
3rd March.
Bexley’s Conservative council, blessed as it has been with incompetents and
would-be criminals
should be an easy target for Labour’s prospective M.P. but to not mention national matters was idiotic.
Today’s Conservative election leaflet looks to me a very much more professional
affair than Labour’s effort, saying and claiming all the things you might expect
in defence of Bexley council but naturally omitting their failures, their
assault on motorists, their taxpayer funded meals for girlfriends and expenses
for long absent councillors. What really spoils it for me is the fact that it is
“promoted” by councillor John Davey, the man who said some of Bexley’s road planning was
“bonkers” but as vice-chairman of the
Traffic Scrutiny Committee does nothing to stop the crazy schemes. And then
there is the fact that he stood idly by when parking fines were levied in
circumstances he knew to be dishonest, misleading and almost certainly illegal.
When you know a man to be useless and unscrupulous
you just can’t vote for him can you?
You can see the Conservative’s lavish A3 double-sided leaflet by clicking on the image
and for completeness and balance the whole of the
Labour party’s leaflet is belatedly placed
on line too; previously only the first page was available. They haven’t
even named the constituency, what did they think they were playing at? There are other Labour
leaflets in circulation but that party has a long-standing habit of ignoring my letterbox,
possibly because it is at the end of a cul-de-sac and represents too long a walk for them.