8 October - One of us? Who knows?
I returned home to see a flash of red and the word Labour sticking through my
letter box but I was disappointed to discover it was not the Labour candidate seeking
election in the Belvedere by-election; it was an unfortunately folded
Conservative leaflet again. Without hearing anything directly I must assume that
the Labour candidate is in favour of freezing his grandmother possibly to death and giving things
away to Communist aligned states. Exactly what will he be able to claim or
promise for Belvedere residents? Maybe I will never know given his reluctance to let us know.
If I had to pick holes in the Conservative leaflet I might point out that none
of Belvedere Beach, Lesnes Abbey Park or the refurbished Tennis Courts were
actually funded by Bexley Council although they must have lobbied for and secured the money.
The last time Christine Bishop owned up to living in the borough her address was
in Welling, same as the Labour candidate, and it is perhaps gilding the lily to
say that pensioners are going to lose “hundreds of pounds” under Labour. It is
£200 for most and £300 for some. But whatever the case, Labour deserve all the
opprobrium that can be mustered, if not because of the money but for the
political naivety which will be remembered for many years to come.
Their people are not really so wicked as to risk killing pensioners are they?
Dunno; but they voted for it on the back of a financial black hole, that if it exists at all, they created.