13 October (Part 3) - What did he do to deserve that?
The big mystery surrounding Councillor
John Davey’s expulsion from the Conservative Party
is what he had really done to justify such a draconian reaction. Not even the most rabid Socialist can possibly
believe that John wanted
to see Nazanin back in an Iranian jail. I didn’t
believe them when rabid Socialists conspired
to crowd fund a trip to Dignitas in Switzerland to have me euthanised for voting Conservative.
Rabid Socialists are everywhere it seems and so are mad Tories.
What John said was ill-considered by a momentarily
disengaged brain, no doubt about it, but his colleagues have done
far worse things without any sanction.
As already mentioned,
the Council Leader refused to take action against a
Councillor who abused his Council credit card. It was
well reported in the local
press (one of several reports) at the time but Bexley Councillors remained
loyal to their old boss; certainly in keeping him away from the clutches of the local police.
Peter Craske’s arrest is fairly well known and hopefully
too that the police traced the
offences to his phone line but not a single Councillor publicly criticised him for it.
There are several similar cases.
I witnessed one Councillor perjure himself in both a Magistrate’s and Crown
Court and I have both the actual evidence and his signed statement about that
evidence in my files and there are important differences which change the meaning
dramatically. The Councillor was supported in his
truth suppression by a Labour Councillor who left Bexley in 2014. No one criticised him
for it, indeed he has progressed through the ranks since then.
Cabinet Member Read used to abuse me regularly to the extent that another
Cabinet Member wrote to me personally to apologise for his behaviour and another
agreed with me when I said that Read was “nasty”. Again in writing but Read
remains a leading Conservative Member of Bexley Council.
I have video of the late Linda Bailey (†) assaulting a member of the public and
Councillors were not in the least bit concerned when I posted it on BiB.
Greenwich police reported Councillor Cheryl Bacon to the Crown Prosecution
Service when she allowed her name to be added to a Bexley Council document which
was pure fabrication. Three Labour Councillors made a bit of a fuss about the
alleged Misconduct in Public Office and so did one Conservative but officially she got off Scot free.
Councillor Geraldene Lucia-Hennis organised a strip show in a pub that was not
licenced for such entertainment and a number of Councillors turned up to watch
including the Mayor who made the event official by having the date entered into
her Council diary. Labour Councillor Stefano Borella did his best to
ensure that the licence rule breaking was acknowledged but it never was.
Along the way there have been some less serious misdemeanours. On one
occasion a Councillor admitted in Court to being a liar and admonished for it but no one locally took
any action except that privately a well known Conservative name made it clear to me that he considered that
to be a mistake. Twice have would-be Conservative Councillors been dropped at the
selection stage for minor skirmishes with the law; but that is as bad as any punishment has ever become up until now.
Something doesn’t smell right about the events following John Davey’s ill-judged
words. If I was him I’d resign from his West Heath ward today and watch Labour romp home while Liz Truss remains under a cloud.
All this staggeringly inept episode has proved is that neither of the main
parties can be trusted to make rational decisions. As my ninth decade approaches
I think I am sick of all of them. Political Parties that is. I remain of the opinion that
not all politicians are bad but would I trust any of them absolutely? Probably not.
Correction; absolutely not.
† She may have been provoked but I doubt John Davey would have got away with it.