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News and Comment June 2023

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12 June - Dangerous developments

You go away for the weekend and miss all the fun, weather included. It is fairly consistent when I journey westward that for better or worse the weather conditions reverse at the Membury Services. This time the sunshine disappeared and was not seen again until the return leg. With no wi-fi (it usually works down there but not this time) I was almost cut off from news which included the rejections from Boris Johnson's dubious Resignation Honours List (PDF file) and had to trawl down to the humble OBEs this morning before finding a name I was both familiar with and thought might merit a gong.

Colin Bloom OBEColin Cromarty Bloom, faith adviser to BJ. Presumably he would have faced the same uphill struggle as he did against Teresa Pearce in 2010.

The big man himself resigned on Friday, a figure of fun who consistently lied in all the years I have followed his antics but nevertheless convinced me he would put Britain first and Get Brexit Done etc. He turned out to be a tax raising green socialist failure - as well as a liar. Now he has set out to destroy Rishi Sunak so my loyalties are torn yet again.

A week ago a friend said he had come around to my point of view on the future of British politics. “What is that?” I asked. “It will never happen but the only way to secure real change is a bloody revolution.”

I donְ’t remember saying that but I wouldn’t totally disown it. In fact I heard the same from a usually laid back family member on Saturday and when speaking to two farmers the following day.

The political classes have no idea what the general population may be thinking and that is dangerous.

Even way down west of here ULEZ was another conversation piece, maybe because a loon runs Bristol as well as London. I said, not for the first time, that the haulage companies could and should bring Khan and London to its knees by refusing to service it.

I was told by someone well connected in transport circles that that was the likely scenario in 2024 if Khan doesn’t come to his senses over safety issues that have not yet captured the attention of the MSM. ’Nuff said!

Back home I found that Country Slop has emptied the contaminated bin neglected since April and left it unlocked so that the cycle can start again. Strictly speaking it is already contaminated because Country Slop didn't empty it properly.

On the parking front it is back to normal. Van drivers return from their overnight work and have nowhere to park because of commuter parking.

Bins Vans Blocked Blocked

I had no intention of reporting the white van driver under my ‘commuters only’ rule but the driver told me he would only be there ten minutes until a parking space became available. I showed him where there was a space but maybe the language differences got in the way and he was given a ticket more than two hours later.

The car in Photo 4 was reported by the resident who was blocked in. The vans were not blocking the roads but the cars were. Guess which interests Bexley Council. I think their inability to do the right thing for residents indicates yet again that they probably hate us.

 

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