21 June - Doom and despondency
I didn’t get any outright contradictions to
yesterday’s rant which must
surely paint a pretty bleak picture for everyone with conservative inclinations.
Maybe views are similar everywhere. Sir Keir Starmer gets no support at all but some (correction, one) sees Penny
Mordaunt as a potential Tory Saviour. A good Parliamentary performer and sword
bearer perhaps but a half decent LibDem at best.
A few words from the post bag…
Empty platitudes.
Sticking plaster policies replaced by no policy at all.
PR blather.
Codswallop.
Like Groucho Marx. If you don’t like my policies I have others.
To let Brexit off the hook is stretching it.
On
the Toyota front nothing has changed. I went out to see if I could grab a picture of the arrival
but an Audi squeezed into the gap instead. The driver asked why I was interested but the
ensuing traffic problems made the point for me and he was happy to move to a
more sensible position in Sampson Close. He said there was no way he was going to pay
Bexley Council £15 a day to use their car park.
While I had been en-route a couple of minutes
earlier, a lady stopped her car in order to take photos of the Mercedes parked
dangerously on the corner of Sampson Close. Particularly stupid as there was a
place available the other side of the dropped kerb. (The aforesaid Audi had
filled it a few seconds before I took my own photo.) The windscreen note was probably
not her handiwork as it appeared after she had driven off.
Nearly an hour behind the usual schedule the Toyota showed up to exploit Bexley
Council’s failure. While I was photographing it the nearest resident took an
interest in my activities. One of the few locals with whom I was not familiar which was
strange because like me he had lived here since the houses were new.
He had reported the Toyota to Bexley Council several times but got the usual
reaction, that is he has been ignored.
I suggested to him - and the lady photographer earlier - that they email
Councillor Richard Diment, the newly appointed Cabinet Member for Roads and Rubbish.
Will he be another Craske? No, surely not.