Thanks to all the Facebook experts out there I now know that the reason I
cannot see London Borough of Bexley News and Views is
because the administrator blocked me.
Do you believe in coincidences? Immediately after Ben Hopton
was exposed I received a Cease and Desist email from the Labour election
candidate championed on that Facebook Group;
the dubious FB banner was changed and I was blocked
from looking at it. All three within a couple of hours of each other. It
suggests a close connection.
The aforesaid candidate demanded I remove the blog dated May 5th
which was a repost of the unkind X post put on line by her colleagues at Bexley Labour and to a
limited extent I was critical of them for doing that to a lady.
The same candidate assures me she is not Ben Hopton. “I am also told that you think that Ben Hopton is me on Facebook, that
person is not a Labour member, and being a party officer, I know that as fact.
I only post on the Sidcup News & Views group because admin on the Bexley Borough
group blocked me some time ago perhaps even two years ago.”
I have been through every pre-election report and
failed to find anything regrettable. I removed the cat lady pun in case it was
misinterpreted and a link back to an old blog. My comments were
if anything more sympathetic than those that came from her own party. I’m not
sure what else I can do to please her.
How is it that Ben, and maybe the candidate, has such influence over
a Facebook Group’s administrators that I can be banned after posting only one comment
which never to my knowledge got beyond ‘Pending’. Is that not highly suggestive of where
the control lies?
If
that is not enough evidence that Facebook in Bexley and Labour are effectively
one and the same, how about the new Administrator’s name? (See image alongside.)
How can a FB group which is nothing to do with Bexley Labour produce a new
Administrator on demand and one who fights the Labour candidate’s battle with juvenile comments?
The name and the Intro cannot possibly be coincidence. It can only be the work
of an out of control Labour activist unhappy with my take on politics. I wonder what their Leader thinks.
As well as demands, there was a reference to reporting me to the police for harassing Ben Hopton but Ben
has said nothing. One might almost believe he does not exist.
It is true that I began to think Ben was the Labour candidate because three
recent election candidates and a former candidate told me that was so but I couldn’t say
he was because none convinced me they were correct. How would a campaigning
election candidate find the time to be a prolific Facebook agitator too?
If Ben Hopton is a totally independent vociferous Pro-Labour
commentator unknown in the highest echelons of the local Labour party why did the
self-identified Party Officer mention him in her
Cease and Desist? Once again it makes one think there must be a very close link.
May I specially thank my new Green friend Anita Paris for her comments on this
matter and help with getting around the ban. All I have to do now is convince her that drugs for all and open borders
may not be a winning formula.
I may not know much about the technicalities of Facebook but I do know my way
around my ISP’s mail server. Guess which email address was blacklisted last week. (But the
contact form has to remain available.)
To simplify catching up on what has been said about Ben Hopton
a new Index has been provided. It is mainly copies of what he has posted to his Facebook Group.
And for the record, during the short election campaign, the Conservatives were criticised
for claiming they would not build on green spaces when quite clearly that is
exactly what they want to do with BexleyCo, and their lack of leaflets. A
Conservative Councillor contacted me to help then and periodically ever since. Reform UK was
criticised for some poor quality leaflets and their Leader contacted me
personally to agree and that better ones were in the pipeline. The Greens were
criticised for being a policy free zone and it has resulted in eight
friendly emails from Greens that have for the first time made me think I should look into their party more seriously.
But the Labour candidate goes on the warpath over someone she says is nothing to
do with her party. Their Leader must be hanging his head in despair.
Note: A message received later today gave a new name for Ben
Hopton. Not someone whose name has ever appeared on Bonkers but not unknown to
those of us who watch local politics. All the evidence points to the London
Borough Facebook group is Labour in Bexley disguise.