22 May - Round Mayor at the Welling Table
Bexley
Council is not all Teresa O’Neill, Philip Read and Peter Craske, there are good
people there too quietly working away to benefit the borough. Bexley doesn’t
need to be nothing but a plague of Yellow Box Junctions and ever increasing parking charges.
The trio pictured are Councillors (past and present) but the two on the left
gave up the struggle to improve the borough under its current leadership and
instead work independently to achieve those aims wherever they can.
They work under the umbrella of the Welling Round Table
and both play a leading role.
The Round Table invited Mayor James Hunt to what must be one of his final Civic duties to
wreck his diet at a dinner around their well filled tables.
Then they surprised him with a little cheque funded by their
various charitable activities.
Presumably the Mayor is forgiven for Bexley Council ripping off the Round Tablers by charging outrageous
fees for the hire of Danson Park. Maybe James being mixed up with
disallowing
the rival to BexFest (18th and 19th June 2022) put him in the Welling Round
Table’s good books again.
James has said he will spend the money on children based charities in Bexley and
he is so impressed by the Round Table that he plans to join it. He likes a good lunch.
Also shown is, Kerry Allon, one time Councillor for Lesnes Abbey and Danny Hackett
who unseated him in 2014. All friends now.
Note: I am informed that the shiny black boots were on the
other foot. It was the Mayor’s charity bash and it was him who invited Welling
Round Table members. They not only gave him £10,000 to spend on his favourite
charities but were charged £55 a head for their dinner. Nice work if you can
get it James. Make the most of your last three days in chains. The next Mayor will have a big act to follow.