30 May (Part 1) - Total Whitening or total BS?
When
you see a letter in the paper praising Bexley council it is unusual, it may be
unprecedented. When it speaks of the council as “We” it’s suspicious. When
a letter refers to statistics based on the Constitution of every borough
in London it looks like an inside job. When a council leader you can’t trust will
only say she has had “a number of exchanges with J. Colegate” but then
goes all coy it looks like it’s worth digging further. So we did.
It can be confirmed that a J. Colegate, a Mrs. J. Colegate
actually, has a close relationship with Bexley council, the mayor etc. We know
the first name, the name of the man she married, her children’s names, address, the lot. There is an outside
chance it’s the wrong family, but Colegate is not that common a name.
Nevertheless I won’t publish the details while there is a scintilla of doubt,
but councillors who can
publish outright lies
on their political website,
distort the truth beyond recognition
in The Bexleyheath Chronicle,
usurp the Arts Council
for political purposes,
dishonestly announce Bexley’s council tax
as one of the the lowest in London when it stands at
24th out of 32,
victimise individual residents whether they be
campaigning allotment holders,
elderly ladies who’ve had their
refuse bins vandalised,
shopkeepers with placards or
bloggers who know too much,
are certainly not above planting a
factually inaccurate
letter praising themselves in a newspaper.