The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
3 June - Demanding, menacing, threatening - Episode 2
The menacing letter didn’t simply arrive courtesy of a second class stamp and a local postmark it came from a City solicitor with an EC3 address.
As implied on Tuesday there are some decent people in Bexley Labour so I was tipped off about its likely arrival a week earlier.
A site search revealed that the complainant had never merited a reference here until I was
verbally attacked for my opinion of the Metropolitan Police but was
additionally associated, and publicly admitted to being so, with a frivolous
complaint against Councillor Read and later against Councillor Hackett. @bexleynews
came in for on-line criticism alleging that they were
content to see school children go hungry during half term.
Never named because the complainant prefers to hide behind Twitter anonymity.
I referred every BiB reference to a libel lawyer who reported back that what was published here got
“nowhere near the threshold for being libellous or defamatory” and I additionally dug out
my correspondence with Bexley police which advised that in reporting news “as a
journalist” I could not be held liable for harassment unless my comments were “racist or very extreme”.
Thus reassured I went back to sleep for a week.