14 March (Part 1) - Where’s Melvin run to?
Not a lot has registered with me about who the Conservatives plan to stand for election in May.
I know the names of the Sidcup three and I know that Frazer Brooks has done a runner from Falconwood to Blackfen
and been criticised in certain quarters for doing so. I have no idea why; it is
standard procedure in Bexley; but of the others? I should have taken notes. (I suspect I would find a few if I carried out a thorough search.)
However thanks to
an X post from former MP David Evennett we know who is going to take on Crayford.
“Local Conservatives were out campaigning in Crayford this morning to support
Council candidates Cllr Geraldene Lucia-Hennis, Andrew Credgington and Jonathan
Gillespie. Our GLA member Thomas Turrell AM joined us.”
Geraldene has been a Crayford Councillor for a very long time; since before 2010 anyway. (The precise date is unknown because the Tories
website page on her is broken. P.S. 2006.)
However her colleague and Cabinet Member Melvin Seymour, while present in the
photo, does not otherwise get a mention. Has he done the chicken run? (P.S.
To West Heath.)
I am not sure why he should be worried. In a fit of extraordinary stupidity, Crayford
elected a Labour MP in 2024, one who is in favour of killing viable nine month foetuses and thinks we are short of juries, not Court rooms or the judiciary to
run them; and is happy to undo 800 years of history.
Crayford doesn’t need any more buffoons and might be well advised to stick with those they know best.
