21 April (Part 1) - Council Questions from MoPs
More
than an hour before Councillors began
their love-in there were the
usual questions from Members of the Public (MoPs) and Councillors.
Mr. Shvorob asked if the Conservatives were going to continue with their
somewhat dishonest practice of planting their supporters in the gallery masquerading as MoPs to ask questions.
The Council Leader David Leaf implied that Mr. Shvorob was himself a ‘plant’
for his own Working for Sidcup Party and that the two questioners following
Mr. Shvorob were
Labour ‘plants’ standing in Crayford. You have to
admit that Councillor Leaf always has his wits about him.
Both Nathan Ogunleye and Colin Chin are Labour election candidates.
As David said, the question sort of answered the question. (Good answer, they
are all as dishonest as each other.)
Mr. Shvorob’s second question was dismissed as “an absolute load of rubbish
that has just come out of his mouth. He comes to the Council to waste people’s
time”. Councillor Leaf is both too clever and far too rude. Mr. Shvorob said "“he had no shame.”
To Mr. Ogunleye, Councillor Diment said it remains to be seen what the
effect of the return of the Crayford loop services would be and implored
people to use it. “Use it or lose it.” Mr. Ogunleye said the Conservative
decision to cut the loop line service was wrong but Richard Diment reminded
him that “usage fell off a cliff” at the time of Covid. The service was
unviable and has not yet fully recovered. “It made absolutely no sense to run empty trains.”
On roads, Mr. Chin was told what Bonkers’ readers know already. Bexley spent all the
government’s money and it was only 14% of what Bexley spent on roads while TfL
cut its Bexley road funding of around a million pounds a year to nothing.
Mr. Chin then asked why, if so much money was spent, there are still
dangerous pot holes in Crayford? He was told that all reported pot holes
meeting the [40mm deep] criteria are fixed very quickly. More than 300 roads have
been resurfaced over the past four years.