24 March (Part 2) - Planning Sub-Committee goes doorstepping
I seem to have become a floating voter; how did that happen?
When Frazer Brooks introduced
his trio of
candidates to me a week ago I thought I would give the new Conservative
faces a chance despite all the bad things that Tories do. Frazer is probably as
keen on change as I am but then the realisation dawned that I
couldn’t vote for Frazer however helpful he may have been in the past because he
is the Falconwood candidate and I am in Belvedere. There was also the fact that
one of the candidates, Christine Bishop, has been a Councillor since 2014 and has
never done anything worthy of comment here.
Of the other two I know nothing, certainly not whether they back Bexley’s dishonest leadership or not
which is by far my most important criterion for a vote.
What is the alternative? A party whose leadership is unable to say what a woman
is? Maybe I should ask Councillors Sally, Esther and Daniel if they can provide an answer; but
then I heard Rishi Sunak asked the same question on TalkRadio this morning and
he refused three or four times to answer it. What will his billionaire wife have
to say when he gets home?
What can one do? I have to fall back on my tried and tested favourite; that it is impossible to
vote for a party that cannot stop lying.
Does anyone in Bexley really believe that our Labour Councillors are against
the £150 Council Tax rebate handed out by the aforesaid Rishi? Of course not.
Bexley Tories take us for fools.
A plan to blog about lies again required firing up my secondary Twitter account
to see what Councillor Philip Read was saying. He too has been going on about the
three Belvedere candidates but I couldn’t quite make out what he was trying to say.
The trio was “picking up on issues ignored by Labour Councillors”. Hang on a
minute Philip, Belvedere is ruled by a Conservative Council and if there are
issues in the ward it is the Conservatives who are failing to see them, may have
created them and are certainly ignoring them.
Councillor Read’s comment is an admission of Tory failure. Maybe one day I will
regurgitate all the failures suffered when the area was represented by Conservative Councillors.
Who remembers the campaign run by them against the opening of the Asda supermarket?
Then for no good reason I clicked on Philip Readְ’s photos and the third looked
more than a little familiar. Wasn’t that the house I was passing when
accosted by a bunch of hooligans?
And what has happened to Bexley’s favourite property developer’s
ill-fated plan to extend 95a Woolwich Road? By a
strange coincidence on the very day a Conservative Councillor who serves on
Bexley’s Planning Committee was hobnobbing at his
door, the latest planning application was published by Bexley Council. 22/00333/FUL.