31 January - For God’s sake cool it
There
are some very nasty people in this world and one or two of them have finished up
as Councillors in Bexley. Why people vote for them I have no idea, presumably
some Conservative supporters are ignoramuses totally unaware of what goes on in our community.
I know that some Tory Councillors agree with me.
But most are sort of OK and a few I know to be really nice people keen to do
their best not only for voters but humanity - and dogs - in general.
In the top three of those would be Mayor James Hunt. A genuinely nice guy
without a shred of malice within his vast frame. I might have put him in my top
spot except that it would risk upsetting the other two.
On Saturday someone wanted him dead and yesterday he went public on both Twitter (see image here) with
a fuller account on Facebook. (Click to read it.)
Many of us see such pent up anger whenever we are out on the road. The
unreasonable aggression on display there is pretty much the norm. High speed
weaving from one lane to another to save a few seconds and undertaking on
Bexley’s badly designed roundabouts being my principal bugbears, but who in their
right mind threatens to stab a public figure going about his business at their
own address? Even our incompetent and corrupt police force should manage to find the culprit.
I don’t have close friends who are Councillors but James Hunt was the first
to hold out a friendly hand to me both literally and metaphorically and still does so ten years later.
It was the mark of a friend that at the very same time James posted on Twitter (see above) he sent
another message to reassure me that his reference to “keyboard warriors” on Facebook was not aimed at me.
I think there has been the occasional criticism of James on Bonkers, it is not
easy to be totally impartial when chairing a Full Council meeting and there have
been some spectacular failures in that department, but none were his.
It may be coincidence but all the nicest male Councillors in Bexley are Freemasons.
