29 June (Part 1) - The truth will out
Thanks
to the generosity of readers I have been able to collect some election leaflets.
None are available over here in Erith & Thamesmead, no one is campaigning
because the result is a foregone conclusion. Not a good one.
I now have a full set of local Reform UK leaflets and they along with Labour,
Conservative and LibDems will all be on line here before the day is out.
The Reform UK brochure (manifesto?) is an impressive affair designed to appeal
to traditional Conservatives such as myself.
Its aspirations are exactly what one used to get from the Tories when a few
of that species were to be found in Westminster.
Reform the BBC, the Lords, the Civil Service, the NHS, border controls and
protect the military. Make taxation simpler.
All things that the Conservatives promised but never delivered.
Reform’s OB&S candidate parrots the same message. It is all rather appealing to
those of us who realised three or four years ago that the Conservatives had
seriously lost the plot but instead of them noticing that they were alienating their
supporters, they doubled down on the nonsense until their Government became a not so slow motion car crash.
I am on record as a Tory General Election voter since 1959 - if I count the mock election run at school - as saying
the party deserves to
be annilihated. While it will be sad to see, and especially so if you have looked at
Labour’s utterly stupid policies, I will make an exception for
Jeremy Hunt in Godalming. Arguably the architect of the Conservatives’ downfall,
along with Rishi obviously. Interesting to see (hear in my case) him trouncing Starmer in debate but apparently the country wants to vote for even more tax and
mediocrity.
While out leaflet collecting I called in on an old friend who said he and his wife were both going to vote for the Reform candidate.
He knows exactly what lies she told to persuade the police to charge me with
harassment. He knows how my MP tried her utmost to get them to take action over
those lies and eventually run up against the office of the Police and Crime
Commissioner in Kent. Its boss, a former Bexley Councillor, just as the Reform
candidate was, and his senior staff told obvious lies in support of taking
no action against the Reform candidate.
My MP did not give up but the Office of the P&CC messed around until the 2019 General election came along
and my fantastic Labour MP was replaced by a useless one. So the matter lapsed. Well not quite, but that is another story.
A very funny business indeed. My friend also
knows what the High Court judge said about
his preferred candidate but he is still going to vote for her. It perfectly illustrates the
depths to which the Conservatives’ reputation has sunk when he is going to get
behind a woman who tried her best to get me banged up - for supporting her and
accurately quoting Court documents.
I’m not going to fall out with him over it. As a former Union official he will
never vote Labour and like me he is totally disenchanted with the Conservatives so what is he to do?
In E&T my vote doesn’t count so I may as well vote Reform and wreck my 100%
Conservative GE record but I doubt I would do so in OB&S. I am tempted to say
that the candidate there is the most evil woman I have ever met in my life but
that is not strictly accurate so I won’t. In my opinion she is by far and away
the most evil human being I have ever had the misfortune to run into.
Whether Old Bexley residents decide to vote for her
or not, despite her history of malevolence is perhaps a balance
of scruples. I would prefer to see Louis French elected there but if he isn’t I
suspect it will simply be a matter of time before the press start digging,
indeed they already have while complaining that the Court system is too slow to
be of assistance before the election.