27 November - Bexley council. ‘Courseworks’. Course it doesn’t
It’s
not a lot over four months since every household in the borough was
last given one of these extravagant glossy booklets
and once again it isn’t only Bexley residents who have received it, we have generously sent it all around Bromley again.
It’s right that such information should be available but why can’t it be
targeted more accurately and does it really have to be on the best quality
paper? I may have ignored it this time but only yesterday I noticed that the
very same council department is proposing to seriously
curtail library services.
So why does the ‘Courseworks’ booklet survive in such an extravagant form?
Maybe it’s because the wheels of bureaucracy grind far too slowly. At the beginning of this month
I asked the cost of the ineffective
fencing around Lesnes Abbey. The answer is
£74,995 which seems quite reasonable compared to the £2,500 I paid just a couple
of months ago to replace my own rather more elaborate 90 foot fence. But it remains a waste of money
nevertheless. Councillor Gareth Bacon
says it was authorised by the previous administration
and completed in 2009. Didn’t the Labour lot get kicked out in 2006?
Councillor Davey
made the same excuse last year about the Abbey Road fiasco;
all Labour’s fault apparently.