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News and Comment October 2011

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16 October (Part 1) - Bexley’s ‘Poor little rich girl’. (£50 compensation and still complaining)

Katie Perrior on WatchdogI never get around to watching TV, one programme a week currently, but fortunately readers are more on the ball, hence the picture of councillor Katie Perrior on BBC’s Watchdog on 6th October. I don’t know whether she made a genuine complaint like a normal viewer or was called in to fill a hole as an ‘industry insider’, but the story was she had booked a British Airways flight to the USA and decided to “treat myself to an upgrade” only to find that her inflight entertainment system didn’t work. Katie’s complaint to BA resulted in £50 compensation but that wasn’t good enough for her, she complained to Watchdog; or as I suspect is more likely was bemoaning her luck in a posh wine bar with her media friends when it was realised that her disappointment with BA would ideally fill out a programme highlighting several BA failings.

Nothing much wrong with any of that, but what is a struggling Bexley mother, unable to be a councillor without her £22,615 allowance, who knows what it is like to be “not rich”, doing flitting off to the States at all, let alone splashing out on an upgrade to ‘Premium’ as a treat? Presumably it is because her letter to the Bexley Chronicle last March was an attempt to deceive the electorate. If that is how she thinks a councillor should behave, she is in good company at Bexley council.

Earlier blogs on Katie Perrior…


2 May 2011 - Flak over Flackley
22 May 2011 - Hypocrisy or what?
4 June 2011 - Taking lessons from Joseph
12 August 2011 - One broke the law, the other wants to
27 September 2011 - High flyer


For those tempted to watch the programme on BBC i-Player, our Katie comes on at 30:37 into the recording.
Ms. Perrior’s impoverished status taken from her letter to the Bexley Chronicle available on-line. May 2011 issue.

 

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