On the 11th April a Bexley councillor told me he could no longer access this site via the council web servers,
the very
same day that I received the Harassment letter. I doubt that was a
coincidence and if not must surely mean that police were leaned on by the
council officially rather than by a rogue individual. If the latter he probably
wouldn’t have been able to put a filter in the IT system. I assumed the block
would apply to libraries too but was soon assured that was not the case, however
from what I hear it may be now. The libraries net facilities appear to be
separate from the Civic Offices and if so some council censor must have thought that sending someone to
adjust each library’s firewall was good use of council tax payers’ money. Does
Bexley council censor books as well as on-line
sources of information? Maybe a suitable question for cabinet member Catterall
at the next council meeting?
Among far too many indications that Bexley council is desperate to keep the
truth about its activities from the public at large is the failure to answer the
Freedom of Information Requests (FOI 11/337 and 11/328) about access to this
site and the Harassment letter. They are now two months overdue - definitely
illegal activity by Bexley council. I have been asking the FOI requester for a
long time to report Bexley council to the Information Commissioner (ICO) and he
has been pleading computer problems. I spent the afternoon working on his
computer (which is why there is not much of a blog today) and now he has no
excuse, except perhaps that his Sky broadband connection struggled to get above
dial-up speed. But at least his printer now works and he has promised to send
his papers to the ICO within a day or two. My Subject Access Request on the same
subject is due right now. The ICO will soon be very busy with Bexley council’s
illegal delaying tactics.
Two little news items. You have probably already heard that the motorist
involved in the Bexley village
punch-up has been arrested and Mrs. Joan McCarthy
has been inundated by sympathetic email since news of
her abuse
by Bexley councillors spread around the borough, from her MP too who may well have read about it here. The more
people who know what an obnoxious shower we have for a council the better it is.