As predicted Labour candidates are promoting themselves on social media ahead of the May 5th Council Elections, nothing wrong with that although it can get rather boring - 0ne repaired pot hole too many! I predicted lots of councillors tweeting themselves standing next to the pre-election community skips and this duly happened.
But it becomes more of a grey area when the official Brent Council Twitter account tags councillor's private Twitter accounts in their tweets:
Councillor Krupa Sheth (@kkrupas) who is transferring to Tokyngton ward to stand alongside Cllr Muhammed Butt, leader of Brent Council, seems particularly favoured.
But this is not all. Paul Lorber has called Brent Council's CEO, Carolyn Downs' attention to a leaflet being distributed in Sudbury where an unelected candidate is described as 'Your local representative':
Of course it is those skips again!
Lorber wrote:
Just wondering what else Brent Council will be doing to assist the Labour Party re-election in Brent just 2 months before polling day?
I see that they are promoting one of their as yet unelected individuals “as your local “Labour representative”.
Is Brent Council bothering to send letters to residents directly or was the expectation that Labour candidates would be allowed to take advantage of this? Doing these kind of things just before an election is the oldest trick in the Labour book and I am amazed that Brent Council Officers fell for it and allowed it to happen.
