The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
18 October (Part 1) - Business as usual
I
had to stay awake until 12:15 this morning to see the result of yesterday’s
election in Belvedere. It was as my Councillor friends had predicted. The
unpopularity of the Conservatives in the North of the borough outweighed the
unpopularity of Labour nationally. And as reported by Bexley Council, 34% of my
neighbours don’t speak English as their first langauage.
I now have at least two Councillors and an MP who would be content to see me freeze
to death in the coming months. Some might say who can blame them.
As a result of the late night I was up and around later than usual this morning and found that the dustmen and
the parker who blocks my neighbour’s drive had already been and gone.
The election result was Labour 862 votes, Conservative 713, Reform UK 378, Green 157 and Lib Dems 127. Turnout 18·5%. 2,237 voters of which almost exactly one third voted by post.
The Conservatives did rather better in Eltham where they beat Labour 48·8% to 31·5% of the vote.