8 September - A stay of execution
Since making it clear that
I didn’t think this blog could continue
due to changed circumstances (and an ambition to move out of London) not to
mention a lapsed enthusiasm for Council matters, I have received quite a lot of messages thanking me
for keeping Bexley Council on its toes over the past eleven years and in the opinion of many forcing it to
be more honest. Certainly their dishonest and sometimes criminal activity until
five or six years ago was beyond belief as was the lying, although I am unconvinced that the latter is hugely improved.
There were also many pleas to keep BiB going, several from people I had never
heard of before which was especially pleasing, so I have decided, accompanied by some
embarrassment over the dithering, to announce that BiB will not suddenly disappear on 15th September, it
will continue as it has in recent months; that is with an occasional comment
rather than any in-depth reporting on Council activities.
I was also reminded that with the Mayoral election due next year it would be a shame to not put the boot
into the utterly useless Sadiq Khan who appears to be intent on killing the capital’s
economy stone dead and showing every sign of succeeding.
It is unlikely that there will be any more regular Council meeting reports
because including the attendance time, getting them on line can be eight or
nine hours of work and the readership is no longer large enough to justify the
effort. The much reduced numbers is largely due to the regular supply of Council scandals
(which attracted thousands daily) drying up and
search engines delisting websites that do not have a security certificate
(https). There is no chance of BiB being at
the top of the search results for Bexley
unless I shell out quite a large sum of money for a certificate.
Another economy is that bexley-is-bonkers will be confined to
its co.uk domain.
The .uk, .com and .info variants which all used to do something different have either gone or will do soon.
The BiB Twitter account still attracts new followers but has not been used for
two months. My finger frequently hovers over the delete account button.
So that’s it although I am trying to bring back
the old blogs as the technical problems are gradually tracked down. It will take a very long time
and maybe the job will never be finished although the relatively few 2009 blogs are
already fully restored. (See News/Comment menu.) There are good practical
reasons for doing the oldest first.
The old blogs now adopt the post-May 2018 technical standards and have slightly improved image quality.