28 April (Part 4) - Cheap lies and more expensive claims
Here’s another brief report that owes its existence to a reader; not just any old reader but to
Dimitri Schrovob the Independent Candidate for Sidcup.
Maybe he was trying to answer his own question about where Bexley Tories’ money comes from and by association, where they spend it.
They have been buying the services of Andrew Kennedy to polish their electoral
successes. Maybe we now know where the fib that every Manifesto pledge ever was met in full came from.
Andrew
Kennedy (see the above pinned Tweet) has a decent collection of well known clients. Apart from the Leader of
Bexley Council there is another who finished up in Court following an election
campaign in 2015 and his aide was given nine months for assisting an offence. It
must have been worth every penny to be steered well away from that sort of thing in 2017.
Another face on Mr. Kennedy's list allowed his office to send a letter to a
Bexley MP which contained little but factual errors. When asked to do something
about it they merely compounded their confusion. One cannot expect clients to be
vetted for their integrity or the campaign manager might not have a business.
However we do at least know that the false claims posted on Twitter daily may
actually have cost the Tories money which is a consolation of sorts.