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.
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Craske’s obscenities they were withdrawn from the web.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.
Naturally
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.