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13 April - Labour Manifesto Review

TweetIt is busy day for Bexley Labour. They have a Motion up before the Full Council this evening; quite why I am not sure but at least this one has an interesting back story. I am planning to get to the meeting and maybe I will be convinced that climate change is something which Bexley Council can influence or for in any way be responsible.

Despite Bexley Conservatives being widely ridiculed for claiming to have fulfilled all the promises made in its four page 2018 Manifesto Bexley Labour is going with a 26 page encyclopedia of promises, err…, maybe I should say Reviews, a word that occurs within it 23 times. Among the targets is a wish to impoverish us all by 2030 with an enhanced Net Zero policy. Carrie eat your heart out.

On a related subject I discovered that with my gas supply turned completely off I have had three different daily prices shown on the display unit over four days. The displayed total of those charges is not what you get from adding up the individual days. Octopus Energy is still struggling for an answer but one was to turn off my under floor heating - which I do not have.

The Labour Manifesto makes some decent points about Bexley’s lack of affordable housing, the withdrawal of some children’s services and the need for better cross river transport links which Bexley Conservatives did their utmost to kill off in the previous decade - and then complained when Sadiq Khan continued the task in 2018.

Page 11 of the Manifesto does it for me. A picture in which a prominent face belongs to the activist who took the trouble to report me to the police four times for a series of blogs in which I criticised the unjustified complaints against Councillors Read and Hackett. When that failed to have any effect I was sent a solicitor’s letter demanding the removal of all the relevant blogs - none of which named the complainant.

From Labour sources came quite a lot of support and to quote just one… “That person is a complainaholic. She once complained about a Councillor from elsewhere in London because of the backdrop to a photo they were in. It had been taken at a fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference!! If she is complaining about you then you are doing something right.”

I am still inclined to vote ‘None of the Above’ in Belvedere.

 

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