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News and Comment April 2022

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26 April (Part 3) - Dubious links proven to be true

It was a bit laborious but I have now read through all 17 of the updated nomination papers that Bexley Council has this morning (see Notice of Poll) put on line. I was relieved to see that property developer Tarsem Singh did indeed nominate the wife of the Planning Committee Vice-Chairman. Apart from that there was nothing untoward if you discount the usual political incest played by Councillors past and present, their spouses and known activists.

It may not be unique but I noticed that Andy Dourmoush and Lisa-Jane Moore (Conservative, Longlands) have 20 nominators between them, none being shared as is pretty much the norm in other wards. If they have twice as many supporters as their colleagues it is probably well deserved.

My need to visit the Council Offices to look at the originals has now gone, the whistleblower’s whispering proved to be correct but not his advice that I would never see the names on line.

That is why I last week asked Electoral Services for an appointment only to be very politely fobbed off exactly five minutes later. And then ignored when I pushed further.

This morning I asked them if there was any reason they should not be reported to the Electoral Commsssion for breaking electoral law.

They said they had been far too busy with such enquiries but I was now welcome to go and take a look. I do wonder how many people are nerdy enough to have asked and similarly if they were really too busy managing the queues to answer my email. Their response to the suggestion that I might go to the Electoral Commission was in my Inbox only six minutes after I made it! They must be really busy. Five minutes then six minutes.

Probably I should teach them some sort of lesson but I am not sure I want to waste taxpayers’ money. Bexley Council never learns.

 

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