6 May (Part 1) - Crawling up the greasy pole sniffing out more truffles
For some reason I wasn’t the slightest bit interested in the GLA election and
except for the names Goldsmith, Khan, Whittle and Bacon I didn’t have a clue
who the candidates were, nor did I care.
All I knew about the foursome was that I heartily disliked Goldsmith and Khan
and maybe Bacon not much more.
However, whatever I think, it was inevitable that Bacon would take the
Constituency Assembly seat for Bexley and Bromley. A blue monkey
would be elected in Bexley and Bromley.
Gareth
Bacon
appears to be mainly interested in how much money he can take from the public purse.
However, whilst even a thoroughly useless Conservative can be elected here, it
didn’t all go the trougher’s way.
In 2012, James Cleverly standing for the same position took 88,482 votes out of a total of 170,875 cast. (52%.)
Yesterday Gareth Bacon gained only 87,460 votes out of 191,502. (46%.) Cleverly
went on to be MP for Braintree. I expect Bacon has his eye on the same greasy pole.
There was a 6% swing to Labour on Bacon’s patch but the big winners
in Bexley and Bromley appear to be UKIP, 30,485 votes this year and none in 2012. They had no candidate then.