18 November (Part 2) - Promises. Promises
As
the Old Bexley & Sidcup by-election approaches it has been time to tidy up
the archive of
political leaflets built up over the years and smile ruefully over the broken promises.
Here is a selection from way back in 2010 when Labour was still in Government and
the Conservatives locally were still feeling their feet - and lying quite a lot.
They were still campaigning against the rather modest bridge with which Ken
Livingston proposed to replace the one abandoned after a public enquiry held some 25 years ago.
They got that one badly wrong, All
the TfL
surveys showed Bexley residents to be hugely in favour of the crossing and
they are still unable to get from
one side of the river to the other.
Thamesmead still has its problems with crime.
Belvedere is still the borough’s dumping ground, losing
wild life spaces to data centres and warehouses.
The CCTV system has come and gone.
Bexley Council is still begging for adequate Government funding despite having a supposedly friendly Government in Westminster for the past eleven years.
