15 September - Not wanted anywhere
The
former Bexley Conservative, former Independent, former Reform UK turned Restore
Britain Councillor is in trouble again; this time for offending against the
somewhat extreme views of her colleagues and supporters. She visited a Sikh
Gurdwara and was instantly labelled a traitor by another Restore Britain
Councillor. He also said she is “self-serving” which is undoubtedly true and
she “undermines her colleagues”.
Well that is right too. I have ten year old emails in which she
tittle-tattles about her Bexley colleagues and asks that I publish negative
stories about them. (For the record, I did not.)
Despite what you may have read here recently the Sikh community is not all bad.
I have lived next to one for very nearly 40 years and that particular Mr. Singh
has always been a good neighbour, but some will consider Ms. Fothergill to be all bad.
The newspaper report on the incident includes the following paragraph.
KentOnline.
Let’s not be too coy. Councillor Fothergill accused colleagues of theft, a six figure sum,
and six were arrested, one for a whole year while pregnant. Evidence in my
possession, obtained from Court papers, includes a forged letter and encouragement to steal from a
contractor, and more besides.
Visiting a Gurdwara is not much of a sin in my view, certainly it is nothing like
being on the scale of some others, like an outright lie told to the police (I
correctly reported a Code of Conduct verdict which she reversed) that saw me
charged with Harassment. Restore Britain has much better reasons to expel
Fothergill than engaging with the Sikh community.
Statement to police: “With regard to this a hearing took
place and it was determined that I was found not guilty”. Absolutely untrue and
making such false statements is a criminal offence. But she remains in Rupert Lowe’s
party.