8 April (Part 1) - Priti Pathetic
So
who is this David Leaf who was so keen to
sell himself
on Wednesday evening at the behest of mayor Val Clark and do his bit
for suppression of democracy in this borough? A bit of research shows that the
former Conservative Bexley councillor came 5th in the vote for his former Belvedere
seat in May 2010. Must have been really popular to sink that decisively. His own website
describes himself as “formally (sic) a Conservative councillor” but
still “involved in local politics”. Actually that isn’t the whole truth; he has
a job in Westminster as researcher to Conservative MP for Witham, Essex, Priti
Patel. Incongruously Ms. Patel claims on her website that she “believes in the
principles of accountability, transparency and fair play”. Maybe someone should
tell her that her research assistant doesn’t.