6 March (Part 2) - The fight for honesty goes on
Mick Barnbrook never gives up. It’s taken him three years, sometimes more, to get
MPs put behind bars and whilst I couldn’t even be bothered to make a complaint about it,
Mick is still getting stuck into the Colin Campbell cover ups. Campbell described
Bexley is Bonkers as “crap”, which harms no one and offends few, but the subsequent lies
- he claims he said ‘trash’ turn it
into something more serious. Campbell also went on TV to tell everyone, without
actually naming him, that Nicholas Dowling shoved a microphone up against
councillor Cheryl Bacon’s face which councillors themselves have been queuing up
to state was simply not true.
Despite the anonymous messages to the contrary, maybe because of them,
councillors are also now emerging from the woodwork to say “everyone knows that
Campbell said B-i-B was crap”. Some have obviously reached the end of their
tether with Bexley council’s constant dishonesty. All of which is grist to Mick Barnbrook’s mill.
He recently made a formal complaint of maladministration
to Mr. Tuckley against Mr. Akin Alabi,
Head of Legal Services, Lynn Tyler, Legal Services Team Manager and Rebecca
Sandhu, Independent Person. It’s a bit long winded and needs some knowledge of
the subject to fully understand but here are some extracts…
Despite providing evidence by way of two Freedom of Information responses
293164 dated 26th July 2013 and 293165 dated 30th July 2013, together with an
email from Nick Hollier dated 9th July 213, informing me that the council's
protocol on behaviour at council meetings agreed in 2010 still stands, which all
proved that Councillor Campbell was prevaricating when he appeared on the
Politics Show, Lynn Tyler still reached the decision that he had not
breached the Members' Code of Conduct.
Further evidence of a biased and corrupt investigation by Lynn Tyler is
contained in the conclusion of her letter to me dated 11th September 2013, where
she states "Even had I formed the opinion that his comments did amount to
prevarication, this would not be any breach of the Members' Code of Conduct and
is not referred to anywhere in the Code."
The evidence provided by Freedom of Information response 293165 is clear
evidence that although audio or visual recordings of proceedings is allowed with
the permission of the Mayor/Chairman, that permission has never been granted in
the last two years.
The evidence provided by Freedom of Information response 293164 is clear
evidence that no public disorder has taken place during the last two years that
warranted action by the council by means of ejection or warning letters to
members of the Bexley Action Group.
It is therefore obvious from Lynn Tyler's comment, in addition to the the
documentary evidence provided by me, that a corrupt investigation has taken
place, which was disregarded at the review stage by both Mr Alabi and Rebecca Sandhu.
I am therefore requesting a full investigation into the conduct of all three
individuals for conducting a corrupt investigation, both at the initial stage by
Lynn Tyler and at the review stage by Mr Alabi and Rebecca Sandhu.
I am particularly concerned at the failure of Rebecca Sandhu to properly carry
out her role of Independent Person.
If Cheryl Bacon
had said something like “I made a right arse of that didn’t I? I’ll know what to do next time”
her reputation would be intact instead of being in tatters and whilst not in the
same league few would have cared if Campbell had just shrugged and said “so
what?” But no; we must be fed a diet of lies by everyone concerned. It makes no sense.