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22 November (Part 2) - Bexley News. A reliable source of misinformation, propaganda and deliberate falsehoods

In terms of politics I haven’t got an awful lot in common with my own Labour ward Councillor Daniel Francis but there is one philosophy on which we appear to be absolutely as one. If you don’t go around telling fibs then the likelihood is that you will not be contradicted, except perhaps by shameless liars and the ignorant.

There was a case in point this afternoon.
Jason Cummings Tweet Daniel Francis Tweet
It all started when the Deputy Leader of the Conservative opposition in Croydon and Councillor for Shirley South, Jason Cummings, argued with a Croydon resident that his Council’s bankruptcy was not similar to Bexley’s predicament because Bexley’s was due to Covid and Croydon’s was not.

Councillor Francis posted a correction and backed it up with an extract from the Auditor’s report which confirmed that Bexley Council was in trouble by the end of the last financial year.
Audit
Poking my nose in where it may not have been wanted I provided a link to an audio clip of the Auditor saying the same thing. (Click the left hand Tweet below to listen.)
Bonkers' Tweet Tory Retweeet
So there is ample proof that what the Croydon Councillor said was ill-informed or in plain English, wrong! Bexley’s Auditor said so both in writing and broadcast to the world on a webcast.

Bexley was in trouble last Spring.

Tweedledum and Tweedledee End of the matter? Not a bit of it.

Knowing absolutely that Croydon Cummings might need an eye-test, what did Bexley Tories propaganda machine do? It endorsed the mistaken comment by Reweeting it. Rarely a true word from Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Not ignorance but shameless, a disgrace to honest Councillors everywhere.

 

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