1 February (Part 1) - A guessing game but quite likely a good one
Following up on
my reference yesterday to political friends always being very
kind to a poor old blogger I am not sure if I ever related how Councillor
Hackett (Independent, Thamesmead East) delivered all my supplies weekly during the first lockdown and I
certainly didn’t mention another who immediately offered to pop round with paracetamol after she heard I was unwell yesterday. Fortunately I had nicked two
packs of 100 from East Ham where a certain GP chucks them around like confetti.
They are not the only ones to be regularly in touch via phone calls and text messages. I suspect none of them have worked out yet whether my
politics are right or left and to some of them it clearly doesn’t matter. Proper friends. Only
one still tries to get me into trouble if an uncomfortable truth leaks out.
Danny Hackett, I assume, has interests beyond helping out pensioners older than his
father because after playing at being Mr. Ocado for a few months he simply
disappeared. No contact with me nor some of his other old friends. Then out of
the blue came a phone call and over an hour or more we caught up with each
other’s news. I heard that another complaint had been made against him. Twitter was involved. Isn’t it always?
It’s a while ago now but to the best of my recollection he had been accused of
feeding me information and encouraging blogs supporting whichever of his campaigns
might be current. Fortunately I faced no such dilemma because there had been no
contact with Danny from July through to October.
We have spoken a few times since but he has been strangely reticent about the
complaint. I picked up a few snippets here and there but I began to think that
silence meant he was in trouble. I no longer believe that to be the case.
There is an element of speculation in what follows but I think that @Sidcup4Remain who
twisted Councillor Read’s
innocuous words in order to make a complaint
against him was unhappy with my argument with the same anonymous account last
September; which if it matters was started by @S4R. The complaint was that Danny had put me up to it or something like that.
If
that is so nothing could be further from the truth. As one well known political
name could confirm I had been trying to get in touch with my young friend for ages.
The anonymous @Sidcup4Remain
said I was a coward and
along the way I was labelled a latter day Oswald Moseley by A.N. Other because I had criticised police violence
the day after one of their number was murdered in Croydon. I
also drew attention to @Sidcup4Remain’s ill-considered Retweet wishing Nigel Farage dead.
I was blocked for my pains.
Four reports to the police later and unable to complain about me anywhere else what can a far left
political activist do? Make trouble for Danny with a complaint to Bexley’s Code of Conduct Committee. That֦’s what.
Danny still won’t give me any details except an assurance that the complaint was
flung out at the first stage. Maybe Bexley Council is learning, they should have flung out the case against Philip Read too.
@Sidcup4Remain has been quieter than usual recently.
The big question must be, why does the Labour Party allow its own reputation to be trashed through association?