28 April (Part 1) - The Labour Dirty Tricks Department
There
is still quite a lot of the 220 minute Full Council meeting to report but Monday
is a day when I am fully occupied on other things. I did begin to make a quick
comment yesterday evening about more Labour leaflets becoming available but a
phone call alerted me to a friend with a problem, so late though it was, I jumped on a bus.
While on it for 20 minutes I perused Facebook for more election news and became
aware once again of how the mysterious Ben Hopton, an obvious Labour agitator, was
responsible for many of the threads on London Borough of Bexley News and Views.
Not content with Labour previously manipulating Bexleyheath News & Gossip, he (or possibly
she) is going for the whole borough now.
You have to admire these Lefties; they have taken over the teaching
‘profession’, the Civil Service, pretty much all of the police and judiciary and
set up faux charities like Hate not Hope. Now they dominate Social Media with pseudonyms which were
exposed here a year ago.
Scrolling further into their diatribes I found anonymous references to my blog.
Apparently, based on two successive headlines about Reform leaflets I had become
a Reform supporter. Today I must have shifted to Labour with
three more of their
leaflets and a number of Text Messages to and from my Labour Councillor. [For the record,
Reform’s Bexleyheath leaflet
was also added to the Archive. today]
You know, Bexley is Bonkers used to be a good blog, shining a light on the
various misdeeds of Bexley Tories. Sadly these days it has degenerated into
little more that a pro-Reform fansite. Doesn’t the writer realise that Reform is
just the worst of the Tories by another name? Is he oblivious to the car crash
on our borders in Kent? Does he not recall that his old nemesis, Maxine
Forthergill [sic], was elected in Kent on a Reform ticket? Evidently not!
A blog that was devoted to not unreasonably pointing out how shit the Tories
were at running Bexley council is now relentlessly shilling for Tory Redux instead. Make it make sense.
Yep Bexley is bonkers is a little deranged lately , Malcom [sic] that runs it
has jumped from one party to another, the only founding thing he has
consistency in is backing the wrong people, he should retire. As he
sounds more weird with his one man deranged rants, be okay if he knew what he is talking about.
The only person who has either attended or kept recordings of every significant Council meeting
of the past 15 years and apparently my knowledge of Council history is nothing compared to an anonymous nobody on Facebook!
They didn’t like my reference to their Longlands candidate either. The blog
where I said that I’ve had conversations about her with four well known Labour
figures. I wish to correct that comment. There was only one face to face conversation, the
other three were all in writing. I’d love to tell you who they were but let us
say that in Bexley Labour circles, you cannot go any higher. Would you believe
that the Longlands candidate once (well five times if you count the separate
Tweets) reported me to the police for condemning
police violence
directed at old ladies in Trafalgar Square?
Too many Labour supporters (not local Councillors in my experience) are simply deranged but it is satisfying to be reminded how widely the blog is still read. I have no idea whatsoever
of the actual numbers because there are no counters in the code. Not a single cookie and the reason is that I simply do not care if it is
read or not. Unlike most blogs, it is not supported by advertisements or anyone
other than me. If it annoys Lefties it is worth the effort! (All bloody day today!)
Of course, when Bonkers did little more than bash lying, and occasionally
criminal, Bexley Tories I was Top of the Left Wing Pops, but I told Labour Councillors at the
time that if ever the Council changed hands they would almost certainly
find themselves in the firing line. Councillor Philip Read was absolutely convinced I was a Labour troll and
said so frequently.
It probably looked that way to many but it simply wasn’t true. Bonkers ‘trolled’
liars and Bexley Council was stuffed with them.
Only last week I told a Reform candidate that he could expect “to get it in
the neck” if his party didn’t do what we expect of
them. I specifically asked their Leader for his stance on attacking motorists and
got in return an extensive critique of Sadiq Khan which answered the question fully.
Over the past couple of weeks every party, apart perhaps for ‘Working for
Sidcup’ has been criticised to some extent but personally my politics have
always leaned rightwards. From the school mock election in 1959 and being thrown
out of a Labour party meeting for heckling the same year, I have voted
Conservative at every General Election apart from the last one.
I voted Lib Dem in Aldershot circa 1965 because a friend was a candidate and I
didn’t want to look him in the eye later and swear he had my vote. Danny Hackett
(Labour at the time) benefited similarly in 2014 and Sally Hinkley (Labour) in 2022.
In the 1960s I went to a few Young Conservatives meetings but mainly for the
girls. I was a Member from 1990 to 1992 but ditched it when they abandoned the Community
Charge and I never forgave them for introducing the punitive Council Tax.
I will not join Reform UK and even less so Restore Britain. Neither will I
abandon Bexley-is-Bonkers despite Social Media moving on since 2009. It keeps
the 83 year old brain cells active and I cannot be manipulated by Labour
activists who trawl ancient history hoping to find ‘incriminating’
opinions. I am guilty of that sort of thing myself but those they have come up
with about Reform candidates make me more inclined to vote for them when broadly
correct facts are expressed even if they may be a little clumsy. Some are
clearly self-deprecating jokes, possibly ill-advised for a candidate,
but six years ago they were not.
They remind me that exactly 30 years ago a Muslim man told me how he and his
friends met weekly to plot the takeover of the UK. It was always disturbing and
now it is far worse than that.
