13 October (Part 3) - Reform UK delivers their by-election leaflet
Returning downstairs after writing Part 2 I found
Reform’s
by-election leaflet folded through the letter box.
Three of the four promises are exactly the same as those
the Conservatives promised
yesterday. Cleaner streets, better policing and better transport. Reform
gets top marks for actually saying what many people think. The police have been politicised
which is undoubtedly true as is Reform’s criticism of unnecessary
20 m.p.h. zones. Are there any in Belvedere?
Maybe Nuxley Road is restricted
- it is not a place I visit - but when can you do more than 20 there anyway? I
am not aware of being held up by 20s anywhere in Belvedere unlike the nonsense of 20s in
Greenwich on dual carriageways that are without adjacent residential properties.
Nothing but Socialist spite in action.
Whilst I wouldn’t lose any sleep if the Conservative Party was wiped out
nationally as retribution for filling its ranks with liberal wets, locally one only has to
look at neighbouring
Socialist boroughs to see the pitfalls that Conservative Bexley has managed to avoid.
After the old lady died in East Ham aged 100 I have not visited Socialist Newham
very often. It was a dump when I did and it is
a near bankrupt crime-ridden dump now. Bexley has not quite gone down that route although
some might argue that its Chief Executive had a hand in setting Newham on its downward path.
Fortunately Bexley escaped from its partnership with Newham in the nick of time.
Labour
promises better transport and cleaner streets too but is stronger on housing
issues and has been trying to counter its disastrous first 100 days of
government with a list of 14 achievements. They may appeal to its hard-core
supporters but only five of them appeal to me. For the remainder I am at best indifferent but mainly against.
I will vote Conservative next Thursday because I don’t think any of the
opposition parties can have an impact on the direction Bexley Council is taking
us and whilst far from perfect that direction is quite obviously not as bad as
in several Councils not very far away.
Reform UK is handicapped as far as I am concerned by the ultimatum that I must
pay its Old Bexley candidate £4,800 because of my obscure reference - but
respecting the sensitivities; not a link - to a Council web page which their candidate wishes did not exist.
As if BiB is big enough these days to influence an election!
The deadline for payment passed ten weeks ago. Meanwhile I will not be voting Reform at local elections.