BiB is occasionally asked to feature a perceived injustice which the
requester believes will shame Bexley Council into action. My answer is always
the same, I am happy to do so but warn that Bexley Council is beyond shame and
will do nothing. In the worst case they may take revenge and make things worse.
This may be why such requests are fewer than they used to be.
You cannot shame a Council that after a blog stating that two plus two equals
four and quotes Bexley Council’s website as evidence one Councillor complains to
the police that in fact the answer is five and the police, incompetent as
always, don’t bother to check and charges you with spreading misinformation.
Then when you seek support from every Councillor, all of whom know that two plus two is four,
only two bother to reply and help. Councillors June Slaughter and James Hunt if
you must know. All the rest shamelessly defend the indefensible by default.
(This predates the last election so don’t tar the recent young intake with the same brush. Ditto Labour Councillors.)
When another Councillor was arrested by the police and the C.P.S. recommended he
be charged, Bexley Council called in favours with the Tory Mayor and the police
magically de-arrested him. When I challenged the police with this thought they refused to deny it and the Councillor was
restored to his Cabinet position. Shameless again.
Need I go on?
I have been attempting to collect evidence on the latest complaint for several weeks and even now it may fall a little short of what is required. It
concerns the Bowling Club in Russell Park. It’s off Long Lane not far from the bus garage and I didn’t know it was there.
Like most of us I have driven down Long Lane many hundreds of times and occasionally wondered why
a road with houses on one side only, all of which have off-road parking spaces for one or two cars, should be so clogged with additional vehicles.
Maybe I am dim but I never thought that drivers at the nearby bus garage might be responsible. They are not allowed to park on site so where else are they going to go?
On three occasions I have stood and watched them.
The problem is that the 70+ mainly elderly folk who pass their time playing bowls cannot get anywhere near their ground as a result of which the Club might have to close.
Visiting Clubs refuse to come.
There is a simple solution, park on the green’s own car park; but it belongs to Bexley Council and allegedly those shameless enemies of the people won’t
let them even in return for a fee. The only use the car park gets is when the Mayor turns up in the Council limo to award prizes.
Maybe next May will bring forth a more responsible Council? The suspicion right now must be that Bexley Council would like to see the Club close so that they can build over it.
