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News and Comment April 2022

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6 April (Part 1) - Abstention it is then. Sorry Sally

When taking a look at the newly published election candidate nominations two things stood out like a sore thumb. Some Council numbskull had decided to split the file into its 17 component parts (wards) instead of the usual single PDF thereby massively increasing the amount of work required to make any sort of summary, and the ridiculously high number of candidates who had taken advantage of the 2019 law change that allows them to withhold their address.

My immediate reaction was that I would not vote for any candidate that put secrecy above openness but it is going to make no difference to my vote, I had decided that I couldn’t support any Conservative unless I was assured that he or she intended to rebel against the lying elite. (In Belvedere all the Conservatives hide behind the new law and all the Labour candidates are honest and above board.)

However Belvedere ward is not typical. There are 112 candidates for Bexley’s 45 seats and secretive Labour exceed secretive Conservatives by more than two to one. (28 Labour, 13 Conservative and 18 ‘Other’.)

If I took that first reaction too far I would, in another ward, find myself voting for Craske and Read!

My voting intentions have wandered all over the place. The Conservatives are definitely ruled out - for consistent lying obviously - but I cannot bring myself to vote for a party whose local Vice-Chair likened me to Mosley for my views on violent police officers and whose Secretary set out to cause me legal expenses by sending a solicitor’s letter threatening action if I did not remove all reference to her from this blog.

She had never been named here but her unjustified complaints against Councillors Read and Hackett had been fully exposed. It is difficult to support a Labour Party Leadership that cannot stamp out their rogue elements.

 

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