When
I saw this X post yesterday my first thought was how do they know. Has a man with a clipboard
been standing in Broadway accosting passers-by or is it a sub-set of a national poll?
Probably it doesn’t matter because one can feel the discontent that is sweeping
the country. It has been getting worse ever since Covid when everyone could see
for themselves the calibre of our politicians and then came Two Tier Keir to
throw an accelerant on the flames.
Starmer has managed to get
everything wrong, aided and abetted by the biggest bunch of incompetents one
could ever dream about but far too much of what they have been doing is on the back
of Conservative laws. Who passed Net Stupid into law? Theresa May. Who was it
who refused to wipe EU laws from the Statute Book? Kemi Badenoch. Who botched EU
withdrawal and left Northern Ireland under foreign control giving Starmer a
further excuse to cosy up with Brussels? Boris Johnson.
Who are the Conservatives looking at for renewed leadership now? Robert Jenrick,
a man who the Electoral Commission said broke election expenses rules in 2014. (A
by-election.)
He was involved in some ‘funny [planning] business’ in Notting Hill which involved local MP James Brokenshire in
2019 and in 2020 even funnier business in Tower Hamlets when he
over-ruled the decision of the Planning Inspector to
give a pornographer friend of the Conservative Party planning permission, just in the nick of time, to allow him
to avoid a tax bill that may otherwise have reached £150 million.
The local Council went for a Judicial Review but it was derailed by Jenrick’s
manoeuvres. Even Boris Johnson could see through him and Remainer Jenrick was
sacked from his Ministerial position in 2021.
And he is the best that the Conservatives have to offer!
One can feel the discontent at any social gathering. My week tends to see
meetings with three different sets of friends. There is just one man who retains
a leaning
towards Labour but absolutely none have any inclination to back the Conservatives.
No one is happy. It was obvious to me that when the police began to persecute
motorists 40 years ago when radar speed guns first came into use, sooner or later
nearly everyone would get to hate the police and when Councils began to take
over their roles they would go the same way.
Bexley is notorious for its unnecessary yellow box junctions rigorously enforced. I have personally shown
the responsible Cabinet Member how a local parking restriction is carefully
designed to become an entrapment. No written warning and a near invisible road marking.
The local CEO agrees with me that the restriction is nothing but deliberate
entrapment. How can one respect - or vote for - these people?
In 1958 my father was fined ten shillings (50 pence) for a parking offence. The Bank of
England inflation calculator says that is £10 now. What is the actual price?
£140? We have every right to hate our governments.
If Councillor Gower is kicked out of the Bexleyheath ward next year I shall be sorry at
the personal level but of the others, it is mainly good riddance. Sue and BiB have enjoyed a friendly relationship for more
than ten years, but Councillor
talent in Bexley is in extraordinarily short
supply. Just look at the Cabinet. David Leaf appears to know what he is talking
about and Melvin Seymour comes across as sincere in his wish to do his best for
the vulnerable but the remainder usually appear to be spouting what the Council
Leader wants to hear. A Leader who reports her critics to the police and
requests my arrest for “criticising Councillors”.
It will be a shame to see June Slaughter’s career come to an ignominious end
after 50 years of service and the younger element to the South of the borough
are not all bad, but if they go then ultimately it is their fault for not changing the Leadership years ago.
It’s no wonder that Reform UK is on the up. They may not be perfect but what
choice is there? I will never forget their Deputy Leader being a petty dictator
over Covid. Vaccination or lose your freedom and your job! I have my doubts about
Nigel Farage too but at least he tells us what he is thinking. Yesterday I heard
Conservative Shadow Minister Helen Whately refusing to engage in a debate on
Lucy Connolly’s 31 month prison centre, She didn’t know anything about the case
so couldn’t comment. An excuse straight out of a lying Prime Minster’s rule book.
By contrast Nigel Farage was not afraid to say that a gobby housewife should not
be in prison. With Reform UK you know what you are getting while the other
parties only lie. We know they do. They have been found out and we are all
wiser and sceptical now. They ask me to believe that a slightly built man wearing white
gloves driving in a murderous fashion and quickly bundled into a police van is
the same gloveless burly individual wrestled to the ground a moment or two after
the van door was slammed shut. He is definitely not a Welsh choirboy. When
things don’t seem to add up, history suggests we are wise to be suspicious. It
didn’t used to be that way but the truth and authority have become strangers to each other.
The police are corrupt, - a Home Office report on the bookshelf in front of me
says so - the Labour Government is incompetent and probably corrupt - please don’t talk
about Ukrainian models - and the Conservatives demonstrated their total
stupidity at every level for most of the past 15 years. At a personal level I think UKIP
represents my views more closely than Reform UK but UKIP is a total dead end
right now. So for me and it would appear many of us, it is hold your nose, vote for Reform and
hope for the best. It is our only hope that involves a ballot box.
A shame that they have reprobates among their leading lights - I have the Court
papers that prove it - but show me a party that does not.