19 August (Part 1) - Councillor Craske, fiddling with statistics again
You may have forgotten councillor
Craske’s imagined survey on Resident Parking
Permits. He claimed at a council meeting to have conducted a survey to determine
whether Bexley residents were happy with their Controlled Parking Zone scheme. A Freedom of
Information request revealed it to be a complete lie. No survey had been
conducted. In the face of constant criticism he is now claiming to have
conducted another
survey. It’s not exactly unbiased; he and his Tory cronies did it. This time
the claim is that parking charges in Bexley are cheaper than
elsewhere. Among the gems he has come up with is that it costs more to park in
Stratford (Newham council) by the Olympic Park and their new shopping centre and the railway
station that has more interchange facilities than any other in London, with
the place his policies have nearly driven to commercial extinction; Sidcup. Not
exactly like for like is it and he overlooks mentioning that Newham doesn’t
charge residents for parking outside their own homes nor their visitors, whereas
Craske charges residents here an astronomical £100 a year based on
figures he
conjured up out of the air.
He attempts to run down Newham for being Labour controlled and by implication inefficient,
but somehow they manage to take all residents’ unwanted items away, beds, cookers, sofas etc.
at no charge whereas in Bexley the fee is, what has it just gone up to? £29 an item I think.
Newham is much cheaper for council tax too, £183 a year cheaper on a Band D property,
In similar deceitful vein Craske has discovered that to park in the tourist
centre of Greenwich costs more than anywhere in Bexley. Well, well, what a
surprise. Where is Bexley’s equivalent of the Maritime Museum, Royal Observatory
and the Queen’s House?
Craske has posted his survey on the Conservative’s website - I’ve not checked
yet if it is the one hosted on The Arts Council’s website. If you have
five minutes to waste go and look at it. It’s the same
stupid lying website that alleges that
one of Bexley’s Labour councillors
didn’t know there was a railway station in Bexleyheath
and another doesn’t know where Erith is. It is the same stupid lying website that
claims that Bexley has one of the lowest council tax rates when it is
24th out of the 32 London Boroughs. Bexley Conservatives: they just can’t
stop lying; and to think I gave them my votes!