So, I make no apologies for blogging again about Kent PCC candidate Fergus Wilson. Regular readers (there must be at least one of you out there) will be aware that Wilson has been convicted of common assault, which disqualifies him from being elected. His plan to appeal – long out of time – so that he can stand appears, at best, hopeless. For the past few months Kent residents have been entertained by Wilson’s bizarre weekly adverts, in which he…
I promise that this blog won’t all be about everyone’s favourite comedy landlord Fergus Wilson; there are far more important things to say, like how we should build more bloody houses, or how Her Majesty’s Opposition has reduced itself to an irrelevance, or how the Government is rigging the system to make itself impregnable, or how we should build more bloody houses. Did I mention building more bloody houses? However, I find myself moved to return to Fergus Wilson like…
Anyone reading the local press in Kent can’t have missed the increasingly hilarious (in every sense of the word) adverts from notorious landlord and relentless self-publicist Fergus Wilson. Wilson, who recently announced that he and his wife have sold their property empire for £250m, has ambitions to become Kent’s Police and Crime Commissioner. Surprisingly for a man who once announced that he had no English tenants left in Maidstone and had let all his properties there to Eastern Europeans, Wilson has…