I have long wondered why it is that local government employment
attracts such a high proportion of incompetent, vindictive and thoughtless
people who appear to relish getting to work each morning and deciding who next
they can persecute at public expense. Maybe it is down to
recruitment policies and that the
useless management have a vested interest in employing stupid people, but
whatever the answer the result is
more misery
and expense for residents.
Ian Mitchell, a 68 year old man from Crayford appears to be eccentric to say
the least. He lives in his garden shed since he burned his house down a year ago.
For more than a decade he has been tormented by the yobs and vandals that are
allowed to roam the streets. They invaded his garden, drinking; threw beer cans
at him and pelted his house with eggs. Cars were parked across his driveway and
his car own was covered with oil. The police encouraged him to install C.C.T.V.
which he did, but despite asking Bexley council for help 81 times no one there
lifted a finger to assist, nor was anyone willing to view his tapes and
photographs. What they did do however was to prosecute Mr. Mitchell for an
alleged benefit fraud.
The case was taken up by barrister David Martin-Sperry who
warned the cretins who run Bexley council that they would end up looking “a
laughing stock”. And so they did because the jury took just 20 minutes to deliver
their verdict on Bexley council and their wicked ways. Mr. Mitchell walked free.
Well not quite perhaps. Bexley council, vindictive as ever, is planning to waste
more taxpayers’ money by going back to court to try to get a charge put on
Mr. Mitchell’s property so that they can extract money from him, and because
that is insufficient to satisfy their power lust, they are also going for an anti-social
behaviour order against him to stop him harassing councillors and officials with his
justifiable complaints about the yobs and vandals they refuse to tackle. For Bexley
council, court rulings against them must be countered with retaliatory measures
whatever the cost to eccentric pensioners or the public purse. Their ego comes first.