15 August (Part 1) - You may not like them but the fact is that Reform UK is fighting for the people of Bexley
Following the events of Wednesday morning a number of people asked to speak to me to
discuss the VCD footballing situation but I know nothing more than is reported here.
It is Bexley Council which may be protecting their favourite property developer
and it would appear that the only people trying to get the truth out of them are
Reform UK Councillors. Their Councillors are already pestering the Planning Officers.
MP Daniel Francis is undoubtedly interested but it is not really an MP’s responsibility. Daniel was instrumental in getting
the
Leather Bottle demolisher fined by the H&SE so will definitely be sympathetic to the risks he might be posing now.
It seems to me that only Reform UK is interested in standing against attacks on
Bexley’s green spaces. It is Reform who have been helping the South Gipsy Road residents
to fight back against the plans for ten noisy Golf Pods at Crook Log and Reform
has been the only party which has tried to help the Stop Go Ape people, but they are a funny lot, not only
asking my webhost to close Bonkers but they don’t want
Reform to help them either.
Thank you to those
who enquired after my health following the threats to decapitate
me but there was no lasting damage. The punch impact faded within the hour and
my camera survived the scuffle after firing off a few random shots.
The correspondent who went to the trouble of telling me that my blogs are boring
- but he keeps on reading them - will be pleased to know that I have abandoned
my plan to discuss the VCD situation today because Reform UK wrote a pretty good
summary of it themselves. So what follows is theirs,
originally published on X, although most of it can be found on Bonkers too.
(The Reform X post is more lavishly illustrated than this blog.)
After 110 years the VCD Football Club had to fold after their new
landlord refused them a lease extension. It isn’t rocket science to work out
what the intention is for this land. It was reported that excavation
suddenly started on the land in the last few days. A surprise to all
No planning permission has been submitted. A JCB was seen excavating an area
on the site. The writer of Bexley is Bonkers made his way to the site to
investigate. What was he met with? Violence. As he took pictures he was
punched in the back and then they tried to get his camera.
This is not the first time this has happened. A similar assault took place
when our intrepid writer visited the Leather Bottle site in Heron Hill. The
Leather Bottle was razed to the ground in 2015 and the site has laid
dormant since then unless visited by less desirables.
Property developer Balmonza Ltd and its director Kulvinder Singh were
prosecuted and fined at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on October 29, 2019,
following the unsafe demolition of Ye Olde Leather Bottle believed to be Bexley’s oldest pub.
Balmonza Ltd was fined £20,000 plus £1,000 in costs, and Singh was
personally fined £5,000 plus £1,000 in costs after pleading guilty to health
and safety breaches. Any connection between the two
developments? It may be in the name.
The Leather Bottle was knocked down by Balmonza Limited owned by Kulvinder
Singh. Kulvinder Singh also owns Oakwood Construct Limited. The owner of the
VCD ground owns Oakwood Pavillion Limited. How strange they have very
similar company names. The plot thickens.
Surely the illustrious Bexley Conservatives would clamp down on builders who
raze buildings to the ground in a dangerous manner. They wouldn’t associate
themselves with someone found guilty of serious health and safety breaches. Read on….
Step forward Council Leader David Leaf, then Deputy Leader. Step forward
Councillor Brian Bishop, Cabinet Member for Communities & Housing, then Vice
Chair of the Planning Committee plus his wife who stood for Belvedere in
2022 and 2024, Mr Singh’s Ward.
Step forward three failed Conservative Belvedere candidates. A tangled web we
weave. In view of the sudden excavation at the VCD ground, Councillor Chris
Calvert, Reform UK Councillor for Belvedere has referred the matter to
Bexley’s planning department. Their answer awaits.
Mr. Singh is pictured here far left. 3rd left is Christine Bishop who stood
for Mr. Singh’s ward in Belvedere. Far right is current Conservative Council
Leader David Leaf. At some stage a planning application will be submitted.
110 years of football thrown away. What will prevail?
It is perhaps worth adding that Christine Bishop was at the time the wife of the
Chairman of the Planning Committee - she still is but The Chairman is promoted
to Cabinet Member - and she has been pictured at the door of Kulvinder Singh and
inside his house. Kulvinder’s father actually nominatnd her and two other Tories.
Both Christine Bishop and her husband were on the Planning Committee which
approved the demolition of the Leather Bottle.
Bexley Conservatives may not be corrupt but they would like you to think they are.
The Index to Kulvinder related things needs an overhaul. The job for today!