24 February (Part 4) - Address and electoral boundary confusion
You have an opportunity to vote on May 3rd, there is to be an election for a new Council, as if you didn’t know given that Bexley took off the austerity
brake last Autumn and has been lavishing the money they saved in past years on a
pre-election spree.
More on road repairs - but not as much as they have boasted
- planting trees after previously cutting the budget to zero, more eye catching initiatives everywhere and
as many lies as they think they can get
away with about the opposition, which this year will be pretty much entirely Labour.
The Electoral Services team will be working flat out, running an election is a
complicated business at the best of times but this year Bexley is down from 63
candidates in 21 wards to only 45 in 17.
Many of us will find ourselves in wards with revised boundaries and a new name. I
will be switched from Lesnes Abbey to Belvedere and only a stone’s throw from my
address it will be Thamesmead East which previously started half a mile away.
It’s a recipe for the occasional mistake. Let’s hope that none is more serious
than the one shown here. It is often forgotten that a fair chunk of Bexley is
outside the DA postcode, some is London SE2.
I don’t suppose it was done with Royal Mail’s approval but it would appear that
the SE2 addresses have been transferred back into Kent.