THAMES WARD Part 2

As is usual this posting is a matter of rumour, allegation, anecdote, observation and historical memory.

Cameron Geddes -

This we believe is a very complex and somewhat disturbed and worrying young man.

If we were to go back to the great battle of 1994 for the vacant parliamentary seat of Barking we start to see the cracks in his character show. After loosing to M Hodge he vowed hatred of her for ever more, and would do anything he could to have nothing what so ever to do with her.

We are reliably informed that during election times he would not campaign for her, put a leaflet out nothing.

So what changed?

As there are in all politics there was a shift within the labour group to the left, the left were far more community minded, they represented what they saw as the voice of the community, not offering, as Cameron had done for many years the paternalistic view that he knew best.

He made some bad choices in his friendships, which in one instance left him totally exposed and feeling the anger of many of his colleagues.

Liam Smith came forward and became the Deputy Leader of the Labour Group, Cameron could we suggest see this coming, knew he was going to be taken out so to speak, and rather than stand and fight the challenge slunk off into the political wilderness.

In 2006 with a new but slightly smaller Labour majority the labour group took a refreshing and bold step forward, under the Leadership of Charles Fairbrass and Dep Leader Liam Smith the battle lines were drawn, Barking & Dagenham council were going to do things in a more modern and open way and would succeed even with 12 BNP councillors.

Cameron we would suggest would never have wanted to make these changes, he was cosy and safe the way things were, but, Cameron is one of these people that does hold long seated grudges and his hatred for Liam Smith must now we suggest outweigh his past hatred of Margaret Hodge.

Camerons time in the political wilderness we understand has not improved his social skills at all, it is said that he much prefers the company of a bottle or 2 and his playstation in his flat in the evenings rather than human company. Some female members even discribe him as creepy.

So lets come up to date, why did M Hodges North Street mafia want to bring Cameron back into the fold, the answer we hear is very simple, the mafia long term plan had been that Darren Rodwell would be the new Leader of Barking & Dagenham Council in 2010 with Evelyn Carpenter as his Deputy, but they found out that Darren cannot read we understand, so they had to go shopping for a credible replacement and zeroed in on Cameron.

Cameron almost bit their hands off at the chance of taking out Liam Smith, which of course he wouldnt have to do on his own.

But questions do remain, when you consider that every candidate that was interviewed to go onto the panel had to demonstrate what campaigning they had been doing, Cameron has done none at all.

Just what has he done since his selection? Or as may just be the case will he be quite happy to take the title, the money and allow George Shaw to run Thames Ward?

Some little while ago when Cameron was criticised on another blog, a firm defence came in that he was one of the "good guys". Does that person still believe that?

We are just of the opinion that any young man who has never held down a proper job, who spends his evenings alone in his flat with his booze and his playstation, who in the past has had a nasty habit of sending female members inappropriate christmas presents, especially to married female members of fish net stockings with bottles of vodka poked into them.

Is this really the kind of outstanding member of the community that Thames ward want to replace the likes of Fred Barns and Joan Rawlinson?

As usual this post is a matter of rumour, anecdote, observation, allegations and historical memory.