24 August (Part 3) - The arrogant and dismissive Alan Downing
Time
to bring this sorry saga to a close but not without highlighting another
example of councillor Val Clark’s ludicrous lack of logic and eagerness to be seen as one
of Bexley’s most dishonest and deceitful politicians.
A couple of years ago Bexley councillor Geraldene Lucia-Hennis had a row
with a member of the public and was censured by the Standards Board. She was
ordered to undertake anger management training.
She argued that she was ‘off duty’ at the time but the council said that being a
councillor was a 24 hours a day job. There is a report about it on
the Bexley Times website although it is currently rendered unreadable by a misplaced advertisement.
Later: There is a similar
report at the News Shopper but it lacks the councillor’s own comment below.
Geraldene
is not the only councillor who doesn’t agree with 24/7 responsibility. Val Clark has tried to
pull the same idiotic stunt to excuse the extraordinarily stupid Alan Downing.
The pen jabbing, which is now said to be “gesticulation”, the arrogance of the
“I will look forward to it”, the raised voice and the dismissiveness of the
instruction to go away are all to be disregarded because they took place after the
meeting ended. Lucia-Hennis is a councillor 24 hours a day but in a dishonest
attempt to get mayor Downing off the hook Clark decrees he bears no responsibility for
anything after a meeting has ended.
How is that for crookedness?
And don’t forget that the earlier decision by councillors Alex Sawyer and Cheryl Bacon was overturned.
Then
in a final act of arrogance and to emphasise that Bexley council believes it is untouchable it says this…
Bexley council believes it can do what it likes when it likes without reproach. Linda Bailey thought so when she
biffed Olly Cromwell and it probably explains a
correspondent’s report that councillor Sharon Massey felt able to exclaim
“VIPs coming through” while barging him out of the way at the lighting of the
Jubilee Beacon but I suspect this latest example of Bexley council’s supreme
arrogance and dismissiveness is going to be challenged.