28 September - A reason to vote Conservative
I
spent more than five hours with Elwyn Bryant yesterday; lunch and wine etc. and
we talked a lot of politics. Older readers will remember that Elwyn used to be a
regular at Council meetings asking awkward questions and
reporting them to the Equalities Commission when
Councillor
Craske refused to switch his microphone - and
hence the hearing loop - on and the Mayor illegally supported the Councillor. Too many of Bexley Councillors really were part of
a despicable bunch back then intent on fighting any resident who dared to stand up against them.
Thankfully all history now although there may be quite a lot of work still to be
done with imbecile managers.
We spent a fair amount of time trying to establish which of us despised Kier
Starmer’s dishonest regime most and I am not sure that I won. Elwyn was a union official
in the latter years of his working life and his father was a Welsh coal
miner: second thoughts, I think it was his grandfather.
It was therefore something of a surprise to me when Elwyn, never a fan of James
Brokenshire who refused to help him when Councillor Craske published obscenities
about him, told me that Louie French has proved to be a very effective local MP.
That’s a quick turnaround, three months ago Elwyn said he was going to vote for
the F woman who prefers not to be mentioned here.
So what has Louie done to earn such an accolade from such an unlikely source?
Maybe
his latest Newsletter offers an explanation. It is difficult to dispute anything he says in it.
Bexley Village does need to be served by the SL3 bus. Currently it goes non-stop
from Bexleyheath Library to Sidcup station via any route favoured by the driver.
Yesterday I saw it on the A2. Townley Road to Hurst Road is a convenient route
passing within a couple of hundred yards of Bexley station. The station itself
has been upgraded with Conservative Government money and the loop service to Abbey Wood
is coming back in December to which Elwyn added the restoration of Albany Park
stopping services.
Additional Car Parking revenue is going into pot holes and
Bexley unlike Bromley and Greenwich is not making parking unnecessarily
difficult - and expensive for diesel drivers. Bexley is coming down harder on fly tippers.
A new pedestrian crossing has been installed in Hurst Road but Yarnton Way in
the North which is a bigger accident black spot remains unloved.
Louie is fighting the unfairness of the Labour regime’s plan to reduce the
housing targets for Greenwich and Lewisham while increasing Bexley’s. Soon to
overshadow my own front garden is a new 25 storey skyscraper without any improved
infrastructure other than a direct route to Abbey Wood station. The notice of the
consultation was delivered to affected households only a handful of hours before the deadline.
Unfortunately, unlike Elwyn, I do not have an effective MP.
P.S. I used to subscribe to
Louie’s YouTube channel but when he went seven months without posting anything new I opted out.
Elwyn mentiond that he had been on GB News recently which is not something I watch
live but a search was immediately successful. The YouTube algorithm noticed that
I had watched Louie so offered me his channel. Sod’s Law, Louie has posted four
more videos in the past ten days so I resubscribed. If Louie ever wonders why
his subscribers dropped from 128 down to 127 and back to 128 two weeks later, it was me.
Maybe he will one day invest in a decent camera and microphone. Put it on expenses
Louie or ask Lord Alli for an interest free loan!