3 July (Part 2) - Maybe he has an alibi
Being Head of Legal Services must be a difficult job in Bexley. Defending the indefensible and the downright dishonest can’t be easy while signed up to a professional body with an interest in maintaining the law and which might just possibly rap your knuckles if you fail to uphold it.
Councillor Cheryl Bacon’s
flagrant disregard of the 1972 Local
Government Act resulted in a number of
complaints that Mr. Alabi will have to
find an excuse for.
The lies told to the News Shopper give a clue as to what
that will be; “no one but Nick Dowling was excluded” while those who were there
knows very different. Any obvious lies and Alabi himself is in the firing line.
It is 15 days since
my request to take a photograph
at a council meeting hit Alabi’s desk and the only sign of an acknowledgement is
Paul Moore’s abuse of power in threatening me with no photography if I didn’t remove
the blog of 20th June.
He wrote it at 13 minutes to midnight, maybe he wasn’t thinking straight.
A cabinet meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday and a reminder to that effect
has been sent to Mr. Alabi and contrary to the council’s own rulebook, there
is still no reply. The poor man will be under instruction from politicians with
much to hide. All this fuss over a simple still photograph. When Eric Pickles
eventually forces their hand a couple of people will take a handful of pictures
and then the novelty will wear off. What are they worried about?