30 May (Part 2) - It’s a dirty business
As Councillor Hackett’s Tweets have indicated Bexley
politics is not all Sweetness and Light but maybe it is the same everywhere.
My son’s school friend has been a member of the Conservative Party in
North East Hampshire where Hart District Council has been an Independent
stronghold for as long as anyone can remember. It was when I last lived there and that is nearly 40 years ago.
The friend was persuaded to stand as a ‘paper’ candidate this month in a seat he
couldn’t win - but he did thanks to the blue wave that washed over much of the country.
My son describes his friend as resilient and thick skinned which is just as well. He has ignored the death threats.
Maybe he shouldnְ’t,
Hart District Council unlike secretive Bexley gives Councillors’ home addresses prominence on its website.