I have said before that I turned towards the Conservative Party in my formative years because I could see that it was always
the Left that indulged in bad behaviour, usually limited to slogans on walls in
those more genteel days. I could have gone either way, my mother from a very
much working class family (crane drivers and bricklayers) favoured Labour and my father who had been brought up
overseas with a servant in the house was very much Conservative.
Nothing much seems to have changed. It is the Left that threatens to throw acid,
it is the left that throws milk shakes and it is the Left that vandalises
buildings from banks to Conservative Constituency Offices. I cannot recall
anything like the reverse and before you remind me of John Prescott punching an
egg thrower in 2001; Craig Evans was a farm worker unhappy with the way that
Labour’s foot and mouth policy was impacting his job. There is nothing to
suggest a Welsh farm labourer was a Tory voter.
In Bexley last week it was the Conservatives’ Old Bexley & Sidcup office that got the paint treatment.
Old Bexley & Sidcup Labour didn’t condemn the vandalism, far from it. They used
it as an excuse to attack the Conservatives knowing full well that there was no fear of retaliation.
I
have no idea why Labour supporters think it is clever. It may appeal to fellow ne’er do wells but fence sitters must surely find
it a turn off. Despite the calamity that is Sunak’s Government I am currently less
inclined to vote Labour than I was last May. Three Labour votes in Belvedere which I am beginning to regret.
Nevertheless I wouldn’t claim that Labour Councillors take the same view. Not all that long
ago I asked one the obvious question following a similar stupid Tweet. I am not going to repeat the answer
because that might lead to them becoming even more remote than they are already
but I think it is fair to say that our views were closely aligned.
I’ve never got to know any of the local Bonkers era Labour leaders particularly well but none would give cause for any
concerns if they moved in next door to me. My brushes with some of their supporters suggest the opposite.
It is my understanding that @bexleynews is the product of two Cabinet Members
but @Sidcup_Labour is run by people who have in the past been happy to call me a
Brown Shirt Fascist and report me to the police for condemning violence. Apparently it is OK in certain circumstances.