27 November (Part 3) - The voluble muted
My
friend Elwyn pictured here is disappointed that not a single electioneering
canvasser has knocked on his door and he is not very impressed by
the leaflets he has collected and studied.
He decided that he was being ignored and would have to go and
find the three main candidates and speak to them. He wrapped up warm and took the bus to Sidcup.
The Labour Party had set out their stall near McDonalds and Richard Tice went by
non-stop on his bus but of the Conservatives there
was no sign. He wandered off towards their office.
Once there a young man told him that everyone was out but that wasn’t strictly
true; a Councillor made his presence known and introduced himself as David Leaf.
Councillor Leaf as every regular reader will know is a man who cannot usually
stop talking to the extent that his colleagues sometimes make jokes about it. He
is also the Councillor who was overseeing Council finances while they bumped along the bottom.
Councillor Leaf asked what Elwyn wanted which was basically being able to question Louie
French on national policies. Like most of us he has heard all anyone needs to
know about the Conservative candidate’s local ambitions.
“Name?” said Councillor Leaf ready to take a note of the request and that was
very abruptly the
end of that. Elwyn’s parents should have given him a less distinctive name.
“Sorry, if you are not a campaigner [supporter?] I must ask you to leave.”
Friendly bunch aren’t they? Well one of them anyway.