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12 October - Sanctimonious tosh

My Councillor until 2014, John Davey, uttered the words “Can we send her back and get our money back?” He was referring to Nazarin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the illegally held hostage of the criminal gang which murders young women on the streets of Tehran and hangs gays from the jibs of cranes, when there were suggestions that she may be being courted by Labour.

John Davey is Bexley Council’s Court Jester and prolific Twitter user and I assume it was his idea of a joke because that is both his track record and forté. For that misjudgment he has paid with his political career.

Until last May John was Chairman of the Erith & Thamesmead Conservative Association but that is a time limited appointment and he was replaced with the nonentity who is Aaron Newbury. Aaron is a sensitive soul who the electors of Northumberland Heath had the good sense to reject five months ago. He blocked me on Twitter because I was critical of him for impersonating a genuine member of the public at a Council meeting.

The pathetic snowflake decided to kick John Davey out of the party on account of his Tweet. He would not have done that without permission of the ruling elite. Can we really believe that John Davey is an ignorant racist pig without anyone noticing during his tenure of Association Chairmanship? Of course not and that is because he is not an ignorant racist pig.

The present Council Leader refused to report a Councillor colleague to the police when he dipped his hand into the proverbial till. For such a dubious lack of integrity she is apparently to be elevated to the Lords. But she is content to see John Davey crucified for a few ill-chosen words. Self-serving hypocrite.

Her most senior Cabinet Member, Peter Craske, is often said to be the power behind the @bexleynews Twitter propaganda channel. He is no angel. The police arrested him for Misconduct in a Public Office. I have it in writing from Scotland Yard that they traced the following comments - just a selection - to his internet connection and found more of the same on his computer all ready to go.
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Within two hours of Council Leader Teresa O’Neill being officially notified of Craske’s obscenities they were withdrawn from the web. It is difficult to imagine how that could have happened so quickly if she did not know exactly where to go to find the author. John Davey has a long way to go before reaching the same level of misjudgment as Bexley’s longest serving Cabinet Member.

Did the Leader punish Craske? Did she hell!

Probably there was a quick call to London Mayor (and effectively London’s Police Commissioner) Boris Johnson to call in a favour. Whether that is true or not, and the then Borough Commander indicated to me that it might be, the investigating officer was instructed to call the Crown Prosecution Service and in conjunction with Bexley Council have a meeting to “resolve Craske’s situation”. In other words a stitch up to ensure that the perpetrator escaped justice. Peter Craske was de-arrested.

The Independent Councillor for West Heath will have every right to feel aggrieved.


HinkleyNaturally the local Labour party is moved to motivate their attack dogs. Not only the well known activists who rarely think outside their tiny political bubble but also elected Councillors all displaying their superficially Holier than Thou morality.

None annoyed me more than that which came from my own two Councillors. When I read the one from Sally Hinkley the two words that immediately came to mind were “Sanctimonious Tosh”.

My second thought took me to the correspondence file that former Labour Councillor Danny Hackett sent to me after he had expressed his dissatisfaction with the Labour Party and subsequently left it.

It is never likely to appear here but at the time I could barely believe the venom that was coming from Labour sources including my own Councillor.

When voting for her last May I consoled myself with the thought that the words signed off by Sally Hinkley must be something like ‘following orders’ but now I know that they might well have been her own.

Although my first reaction was Sanctimonious Tosh I am coming the the view that the final few words are spiteful nonsense. “This awfulness”. Sally must have led a very sheltered life.

Can we really believe that John Davey is an ignorant racist pig without anyone noticing during his long governorship of Bedonwell School? Of course not and that is because he is not an ignorant racist pig. He is nothing worse than a possibly not very good comedian.

I think I have cast my last Labour vote.

For the record during my 13 years of reporting on Bexley Council only three Councillors have ever approached me in a friendly fashion AND shaken me by the hand. One is John Davey, another is James Hunt and the third is Peter Reader. All Conservatives. Not a nasty thought between them.

 

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