Well things seem to have got a bit hot in this ward, no sign of Evilyn seems she has run for cover, no longer is she boasting that she will be the next Deputy Leader of the council, it looks very much like she is giving up the fight to keep her seat.
Perhaps she has recognised that the Independents standing have a far better relationship with the community than she could ever have, they at least understand what is going on in the ward, and they certainly do not preach to residents.
James Ogungbose, very nice man, but does he really have a clue what he is doing. We know there were a large number of complaints about the time of night he was delivering leaflets.
Rob Douglas, absolutely clueless, just does as he is told, well doing as he was told got him into trouble the other day we hear, he really should not go into local shops and threaten shop keepers that they will loose their tenancy if they keep the Independents posters in their windows.
Does he really believe that even councillors have that kind of power, no of course they don't, but its worrying that Douglas believes he has.
Becontree is not a safe seat for Labour now.
can't even Evelyn, can you? Knew this was coming though, as O predicted eh?
ReplyDeleteon the subject of posters, how i laughed when i was told about the becontree independents posters in Valence ward.
ReplyDeleteIt's a lot like griffin opening his parliamentary campaign in the dagenham constituency.
It's a bit rich calling the above cluless when these independents are clearly floundering at every turn.
Heres a quick run down
Agrawal, lowe and lowe all clueless. With these 3 speaking for becontree there will be a lot of confused residents.
Challis, former lib dem thrashed in 2006 local elections and not wanted by them anymore. Munroe Who?
Mitchell, Rush and Ward, sounds like an old fashioned solicitors and you would not be to far wrong. Only Ward is clueless, other 2 are just coniving and looking after their own interests.
Rush proudly states on her leaflet that she has been the cllr since 1994. Residents say who? never seen outside of her select little circle, borne out by the fact that she polled over 300 votes less then cllr Flint in 2006.
Mitchell ran Gascoigne aid & advice badly, allegedly breaking client confidentiality amongst other things. This unfortunately made the councils decision to cut funding very easy.
Northover, dear oh dear clueless does not begin to describe it, where oh where is warren......
Richards & Munroe. Richards very vocal and likes writing letters, very right wing. Allegedly nearly joined the bnp before joining the independents. Munroe who? wife of the eastbury candidate, peas in a pod.
Barnes, dumbleton and wade. A motley crowd, again not clueless just after self interest. Barnes eventually left labour party to stay as independent 9 months after de-selection in thames, even though he is on record as being very disilluioned with the party following de-selection, nice old boy but contrary to reports not the most popular with even his own family.
Dumbleton, former advice worker, left after allegedly racially abusing a client.
wade another former labour cllr, very lazy and very suprised not to be selected by labour this time around. Following an unsuccessful selection panel he 2 jumped ship when he finally realised he was not wanted.
denyer and the robinsons. difficult to comment on the dagenham candidates, suffice to say that cllr denyer started as a residents cllr and is returning to whence he came. The robinsons are not known at all.
In summary a tired bunch with no ideas and no chance of success.
Oh what a joke the North street mafia has turned out to be. Putting forward the load of rubbish above, just goes to prove to all the very very little they know about the community of Barking they so greedily aspire to represent.
ReplyDeleteWell dont worry, you may not know your community, but the community has got your number.
Your voting pledges are rapidly vanishing and you will be out in the cold come Thursday night.
The voters deserve honest representation, not self seeking, benefit fiddling, drug taking reps like the mafia.
And the voters recognise this thats why they will be voting Independent on thursday.
Barking resident