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Bexley councillors - Ward Sequence

2015 - 2016


(A) Leader of the Council (B) Deputy Leader (C) Leader of the Opposition (D) Cabinet Member (E) Scrutiny Committee Chairman (F) Scrutiny Committee Vice-Chairman (G) Scrutiny Committee Opposition Spokesman (H) Planning Committee Chairman (I) Planning Committee Vice-Chairman (J) Planning Committee Opposition Spokesman (K) Licensing Committee Chairman (L) General Purposes Committee Chairman (M) Pensions Committee Chairman (N) Audit Committee Chairman (O) Mayor (P) Deputy Mayor (Q) Expenses claimed


Five married couples are linked by coloured backgrounds.


Cllr. Ward Party Pay Appointments
David Hurt
David Hurt
Barnehurst Tory Logo £9,418 Deputy Mayor
Howard Marriner
Howard Marriner
Barnehurst Tory Logo £9,418 Mayor: 2014-2015
Eileen Pallen
Eileen Pallen
Barnehurst Tory Logo £9,418
£13,197 (D)

Cabinet Member for Adults’ Services
Daniel Francis
Daniel Francis
Belvedere Labour £9,418  
Gill MacDonald
Gill MacDonald
Belvedere Labour Logo £9,418  
Seán Newman
Seán Newman
Belvedere Labour Logo £9,418  
Brian Beckwith
Brian Beckwith
Blackfen
&
Lamorbey
Tory Logo £9,418  
Peter Craske
Peter Craske
Blackfen
&
Lamorbey
Tory Logo £9,418
£13,197 (B)

Cabinet Member for Community Safety, Environment and Leisure
Indirectly responsible for this site existing having reigned over a network of lies, deceit and incompetence in connection with a road redesign that adversely affects me daily. According to a local newspaper he personally intervened to ensure that a local resident who had offended him was put to an unnecessary extra expense of £550. Imposed a near tripling of residents’ parking charges while refusing all requests to justify the increase with detailed figures.

Famously, his home telephone line was the source of on-line obscenities posted to the web but he denied he was responsible for them. Bexley police, the council’s Chief Executive and the Crown Prosecution Service met to “resolve his situation”.
Lynn Smith
Lynn Smith
Blackfen & Lamorbey UKIP Logo £9,418  
Graham D'Amiral
Graham D’Amiral
Blendon
&
Penhill
Tory Logo £9,418
Vice-Chairman: Members’ Code of Conduct Committee
Steven Hall
Steven Hall
Blendon
&
Penhill
Tory Logo £9,418
£8,802 (E)

Chairman: Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Nick O'Hare
Nick O’Hare
Blendon
&
Penhill
Tory Logo £9,418  
Sybil Camsey
Sybil Camsey
Brampton Tory Logo £9,418
£14,754 (O)

Mayor
Teresa O'Neill
Teresa O’Neill
Leader
Brampton Tory Logo £9,418
£26,391 (A)

Leader of the Council
Adviser to the London Mayor, Boris Johnson on matters concerning the Outer London boroughs. Not a firm believer in the council’s slogan “Listening to you, working for you” (she fails to turn up at scheduled meetings with the public) and keen advocate of high allowances for councillors and salaries exceeding the Prime Minister’s for her favoured fat cats.

After the former leader, the disgraced Ian Clement, abused his expense account and council credit card, various Freedom of Information requests indicated a massive cover-up including an email giving instructions on how to hide things from the auditors. Teresa O’Neill refused all requests by those pursuing the truth to meet them or otherwise respond to their enquiries.

Reported this blog to Bexley police and provided a totally false story to justify it. Bexley police responded and as a result fell foul of an IPCC investigation. No police officer was disciplined and no one was charged with Misconduct in Public Office.

Deliberately ignored the Data Protection Act 1998 by authorising the publication of personal information of residents she didn’t like on the council’s website.

Protected land behind her own house by leaving it designated ‘Educational Land’ long after a school no longer required it. It was therefore not considered among other parks for possible sale.

Dishonest at every level.
John Wilkinson
John Wilkinson
Brampton Tory Logo £9,418  
Roy Ashmole
Roy Ashmole
Christchurch Tory Logo £9,418  
John Fuller
John Fuller
Christchurch Tory Logo £9,418
£13,197 (D)

Cabinet Member for Education
Brad Smith
Brad Smith
Christchurch Tory Logo £9,418
£8,802 (K)

Chairman: Licensing Committee
Brian Bishop
Brian Bishop
Colyers Tory Logo £9,418
Vice-Chairman: Audit Committee
Vice-ChairmanL Appeals Committee
Maxine Fothergill
Maxine Fothergill
Colyers Tory Logo £9,418
£3,000 (F)

Vice-Chairman: Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Colin McGannon
Colin McGannon
Colyers UKIP Logo £9,418  
Cheryl Bacon
Cheryl Bacon
Cray Meadows Tory Logo £9,418
£3,000 (F)

Chairman: Members’ Code of Conduct Committee
Vice-Chairman: Places Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Proven industrial scale liar. Exactly the right qualification for Chairman of the Members’ Code of Conduct Committee.
Ross Downing
Ross Downing
Cray Meadows Tory Logo £9,418  
Don Massey
Don Massey
Cray Meadows Tory Logo £9,418
£13,197 (D)

Cabinet Member for Finance and Corporate Services
Chaired the meeting that decided to ignore the signatures of 2,219 Bexley residents who had expressed concern that the salaries paid to senior Bexley council executives are excessive.
Christine Bishop
Christine Bishop
Crayford Tory Logo £9,418  
John Davey
John Davey
Crayford Tory Logo £9,418
Vice-Chairman: Licensing Committee
The man who named this website by telling me that council road planning was “completely bonkers” but don’t run away with the conclusion he is an honest man. Duplicity is his name; he thinks the planning is bonkers but was Vice-Chairman of the Road Planning Scrutiny sub-Committee at the time; a committee which seems to have strangely disappeared since. He also walks away when shown evidence of council malpractice and dishonesty. He has no great need to fleece the tax-payer with inflated expense claims as he has a similar sinecure with the health authority.
Geraldine Lucia-Hennis
Geraldene Lucia-Hennis
Crayford Tory Logo £9,418
Offender against the councillors’ code of conduct. Twice censured and made to attend training courses. Excuses her aggressive tendencies by claiming she is not a councillor when not on council business. Idiot or what?
Linda Bailey
Linda Bailey
Danson Park Tory Logo £9,418
£13,197 (D)

Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Growth
Struck a member of the public outside the council chamber. Explained it by saying “I can do what I like”.
Sharon Massey
Sharon Massey
Danson Park Tory Logo £9,418 Mayor: 2013-2014
John Waters
John Waters
Danson Park Tory Logo £9,418
£2,133 (M)

Chairman: Pensions Committee
Christine Catterall
Christine Catterall
East Wickham Tory Logo £9,418
Chairman: Appeals Committee
James Hunt
James Hunt
East Wickham Tory Logo £9,418
£8,802 (E)

Chairman: People Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Cafer Munur
Cafer Munur
East Wickham Tory Logo £9,418
£1,000 (L)

Chairman: General Purposes Committee
Vice-Chairman: People Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Edward Boateng
Edward Boateng
Erith Labour Logo £9,418  
Joe Ferreira
Joe Ferreira
Erith Labour Logo £9,418  
Abena Oppong-Asare
Abena Oppong-Asare
Erith Labour Logo £9,418  
Nigel Betts
Nigel Betts
Falconwood
&
Welling
Tory Logo £9,418
£3,000 (F)

Vice-Chairman: Places Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Vice-Chairman: General Purposes Committee
Val Clark
Val Clark
Falconwood
&
Welling
Tory Logo £9,418
£2,661 (I)

Vice-Chairman: Planning Committee
Mayor: 2010-2011 (Self appointed God’s gift to chairmanship).
Louie French
Louie French
Falconwood
&
Welling
Tory Logo £9,418
Vice-Chairman: Pensions Committee
Esther Amaning
Esther Amaning
Lesnes Abbey Labour £9,418  
Danny Hackett
Danny Hackett
Lesnes Abbey Labour £9,418  
John Husband
John Husband
Lesnes Abbey Labour £9,418  
Gareth Bacon
Gareth Bacon
Longlands Tory Logo £9,418

Vice-Chairman: Constitutional Review Committee
Vice-Chairman: Top Management Review Panel

Gareth Bacon stood down from his Deputy Leadership post in May 2015 after being exposed by the Evening Standard newspaper as the highest paid councillor in London on £108,000 a year.
Gareth is also a Greater London Authority Assembly member and chairman of the London Fire Authority. In addition to his huge GLA salary Bacon claims a travel card at taxpayers’ expense worth another two thousand two hundred. Nice work if you can get it.
Andy Dourmoush
Andy Dourmoush
Longlands Tory Logo £9,418
£3,000 (F)

Vice-Chairman: Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee
David Leaf
David Leaf
Longlands Tory Logo £9,418  
Stefano Borella
Stefano Borella
North End Labour Logo £9,418
Prospective Labour Party General Election Candidate for Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency
Alan Deadman
Alan Deadman
North End Labour Logo £9,418
£13,197 (C)

Leader of the Opposition
Opposition spokesman: Environment and Leisure Overview and Scrutiny Committee.
Brenda Langstead
Brenda Langstead
North End Labour Logo £9,418  
Philip Read
Philip Read
Northumberland
Heath
Tory Logo £9,418
£13,197 (D)

Cabinet Member for Children’s Services
Falsely accused a local blogger resulting in the blogger spending 24 hours in a police cell.
Peter Reader
Peter Reader
Northumberland
Heath
Tory Logo £9,418
£8,802 (G)

Chairman: Planning Committee
Chairman: Staff Consultative Committee
Vice-Chairman: Members’ Code of Conduct Committee
Melvin Seymour
Melvin Seymour
Northumberland Heath Tory Logo £9,418
£8,802 (E)

Chairman: Places Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Reported a blogger for comments made on Twitter but exaggerated them very considerably. Blogger found guilty because of that gross exaggeration of the documentary evidence. These exaggerations were repeated from the witness box at a successful appeal hearing. No action taken on perjury.
Aileen Beckwith
Aileen Beckwith
Sidcup Tory Logo £9,418  
Rob Leitch
Rob Leitch
Sidcup Tory Logo £9,418
Vice-Chairman: Staff Consultative Committee
Chairman: Digital Future Scrutiny Sub-Group
June Slaughter
June Slaughter
Sidcup Tory Logo £9,418
Vice-Chairman: Licensing Committee
Alan Downing
Alan Downing
St. Mary’s Tory Logo £9,418
£3,000 (F)
Mayor: 2012-2013
Vice-Chairman: People Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Abused a deaf member of the public who asked for the microphones (and hence the hearing loop) to be switched on at a council meeting.
Alex Sawyer
Alex Sawyer
St. Mary’s Tory Logo £9,418
£17,595 (B)

Deputy leader of the council. Cabinet Member for Traffic and Transport
Vice-Chairman: Top Management Review Panel
Vice-Chairman: Constitution Review Panel

Married to Conservative MP for Witham, Essex, Ms. Priti Patel. Ms. Patel employs Bexley Conservative councillor David Leaf as her research assistant.
Colin Tandy
Colin Tandy
St. Mary’s Tory Logo £9,418  
Chris Beazley
Chris Beazley
St. Michael’s UKIP Logo £9,418
Leader of UKIP in Bexley
Caroline Newton
Caroline Newton
St. Michael’s Tory Logo £9,418  
Joseph Pollard
Joseph Pollard
St. Michael’s Tory Logo £9,418
£2,133 (N)

Chairman: Audit Committee
Derry Begho
Derry Begho
Thamesmead East Labour £9,418  
Endy Ezenwata
Endy Ezenwata
Thamesmead East Labour £9,418  
Mabel Ogundayo
Mabel Ogundayo
Thamesmead East Labour £9,418  


(A) Leader of the Council (B) Deputy Leader (C) Leader of the Opposition (D) Cabinet Member (E) Scrutiny Committee Chairman (F) Scrutiny Committee Vice-Chairman (G) Scrutiny Committee Opposition Spokesman (H) Planning Committee Chairman (I) Planning Committee Vice-Chairman (J) Planning Committee Opposition Spokesman (K) Licensing Committee Chairman (L) General Purposes Committee Chairman (M) Pensions Committee Chairman (N) Audit Committee Chairman (O) Mayor (P) Deputy Mayor (Q) Expenses claimed


Five married couples are linked by coloured backgrounds.

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