12 January - Bexley is greener than Bromley
Bexley’s
Conservative Councillors got pretty annoyed last year when our Labour MP, you
know the one, he voted to allow your healthy grandchild to be aborted at the nine month stage and the unscrupulous to have their cantankerous
elderly aunt bumped off should she be a nuisance once too often,
mouthed off in
Parliament that Bexley was not spending all the pothole money being dished out by central Government.
Cabinet Member Richard Diment and
Council Leader Leaf said it was little short of an outright lie and
wrote to the Prime Minister to tell him. The Chief Executive said that the MP’s tactics were
wasting a whole load of taxpayers’ money.
Well now the truth has come out in the shape of a Government report issued
yesterday. Bexley is among the better Councils which are getting things right more
often than most. In particular, it gets top marks for actually spending the
money, which is in marked contrast to the allegations of our Labour MP. Exactly
what did he think he was playing at?
Having said that, Bexley does have some blooming awful potholes, and other
Councils being worse is little consolation when you fall into one. Our MP was an
OK Councillor but appears to be intent on proving the old adage, all political
careers end in failure.
For comparison, Bromley is Amber, Red, Green Red. Greenwich is Red, Amber, Red, Red but Lewisham is Green, Green, Green, Amber.
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