4 February (Part 1) - Another Party Pooper
Bexley Council has been accused of many things over the years but I only
recall it being accused of fraud on one previous occasion. That was when the
parking department was found to have two contracts with the enforcement company.
One for public consumption and another for internal use only.
Bonkers has never published the Council’s own report on the matter but its Internal
Auditor was (gross understatement) not at all happy about it and the official auditor recommended that
I take Bexley Council to Court over it at my expense. It was what made me think
that part of the Auditor’s job is to protect their own contract and turn as much
as possible into “Good News”.
@tonyofsidcup
has only 35 Twitter followers and is blocked or ignored by every Bexley Councillor apart from Sue
Gower (Conservative, Bexleyheath) and one can understand why. The same reason as
access to Bonkers was (is?) banned in libraries and Council offices.
‘Tony’ has been leading an almost one man campaign on the strange circumstances which led up to
the so called Volunteer Event held in Danson Park last August.
He summed up the situation neatly on 9th January 2022. No public tender, no
legal authority to place a contract until four days before the event, a contract
actually drawn up before that and an allegation of collusion at senior officer level with a favoured business.
All of which looks to be true.
Almost needless to say Bexley Council has neither acknowledged nor answered these serious allegations.
Depending on how one defines ‘favoured business’ everything Tony reported four weeks ago is a fact confirmed by FOI and
the music event organised by the same favoured person was
dramatically cancelled by Bexley Council
maybe after recognising the danger they were in.