13 March (Part 1) - Councillors powerless - and a school lays obstacles in front of a disabled mother
It
is about time I gave an update on the plight of the disabled lady I have been escorting
to school for the last two weeks. Nothing useful has happened since I gave her the names of her
three local councillors and she phoned councillor John Fuller (Lesnes Abbey, £9,543).
Councillor Fuller emailed back a week ago (a caring person would have returned the phone
call don’t you think?) to say there was nothing to be done at present and left the
impression he would be back with something more constructive. I assumed he was
going to have a word with Bedonwell School governor and fellow ward councillor
John Davey, (Lesnes Abbey, £9,543 + £7,782 from the Bexley Care Trust)
but apparently not. But Davey in my experience is pretty useless as a
councillor, he is the reason why this website exists. Probably his fellow councillors love him for that.
Is there any good news? Well possibly. It seems that bus drivers are as frightened
of cameras as Moneybags Tuckley, mayor Clark and leader O’Neill, except that bus drivers getting
over-zealous about a buggy on a one stop ride
immediately change their minds whereas leader O’Neill is going to need a ton
of bricks dropped on her from Whitehall and Westminster before she and her
police minders accept that, in the words of an email from Westminster, “Bexley is
dragged into the 21st century”. That man has spoken, will he act?
If you click on the picture you may read
the disabled lady’s story. For a
more permanent link the page is available from the site’s main pages via the Services
menu - ‘Disabilities issues’.