It’s been one of those days when the phone keeps ringing and the email comes
pouring in. There have been three journalists in touch within the last 24 hours
and one day Bexley council will work its way up to the top of their story list.
So today I belatedly present one of my occasional Newsreels and lack of time
prohibits anything more comprehensive.
Local Newspapers
The Chronicle series is still pursuing
councillor Katie Perrior
the almost penniless councillor struggling to manage on her miserable
£22,000 from Bexley council and her Director’s fees from being co-founder of one
of London’s top PR Agencies. My heart bleeds for her.
The News Shopper brings you
the story of a parking fine for a six second stop.
Bexley council bleats on about how their CCTV cars are preventing accidents
outside schools but this vehicle momentarily stopped outside school hours.
Notomob
have been analysing the economics of CCTV surveillance and why the number of penalties
issued for parking outside schools may have fallen. I’ll see if they will give permission
to reproduce it here, but the basic message is that it’s all about raising revenue
and there are more effective ways of reducing the possibility of accidents.
There has been a small movement with my request and I shall be sending the council some more information to make their job easier. There has been no movement at all on my complaint to the police about my harassment warning, they seem to not want to talk about their collusion with Bexley council which is not much of a surprise.
Bexley’s website and the TIC
The council has taken to attempting to counter bad publicity by putting up an
article on its website every time the papers or the blogs take them to task - well you can’t blame them for trying.
One of these was for The Thames Innovation Centre (TIC) which has been
swallowing tax payers’ cash at an alarming rate ever since it opened in 2006 - a
year earlier than the council currently admits to. As well as providing the
Centre with lots of money it has been putting business its way to help it make a
profit. It may even do so if they keep it up. Quite a lot has been written about
the money guzzling TIC elsewhere but I don’t think anyone has mentioned the
freebies showered on it by our ever-benevolent council…
• 2 tables and 8 comfy chairs £7,339.98
• 11 Desks £14,880.00
• 130 office chairs £26,970.00
• 2 Sofas £2,788.00
• 9 Seats £2,493.00
• Storage units £17,085.00
• 6 Bespoke one off tables and 6 bespoke sideboards £24,327.00
• Board table £1,250.00
• 10 book shelves £2,524.00
For the ‘Servery’
• 6 Coffee tables and 30 chairs £6,991.50
• 4 Sofas £3,576.00
• 9 Seats £2,493.00
Nice of them eh? They bought lots of shiny new computer
gear too.
News is coming in of the council’s legal department’s shenanigans over the
TIC
whistleblowing, paedophilia and sacking affair which I hope to report here as
soon as I can get my head around the complexities.
Councillors’ Addresses
I had planned to edit the list of ‘Home’ addresses when the council supplied the Consent to Nomination Forms but it seems they decided to destroy them all, so the full list of properties in which councillors have an interest must remain as it is.
Democracy Bexley style
The last mayor
tried to excuse her ban on recording council meetings by saying residents could ask for
permission. She rejected the three or possibly four requests made in her time.
The new mayor has done the same.
Under the new Constitution it is almost impossible to ask a question of the
council. Personally I won’t be bothering any more; there are more effective ways
of exposing this council, but I am hearing from others with greater persistence
that the questions are being rejected as expected. This lying council encourages
the view that Bexley is
one of the few that allows questions
when only seven don’t. In practice Bexley council might as well be number eight.
New
material has appeared on the council approved obscene and libellous blog. I say council approved
because they must know or be able to find out who is responsible and have done
nothing about it. It may be worth repeating that the only person who should have
known I was at the Civic Offices was the Head of Members’ Services and when I
wandered into the Cinema car park no one could possibly know who I was apart from
some councillors and a very few officials. Yet hours later I am all across their blog.
I have been asked who did it and the answer is I don’t know.
I do know of someone who…
• Showed an interest in the net by
registering the domain name bexley-is-bonkers.com.
• Was very active on Twitter
until the 20th May when he suddenly stopped. The obscene blog appeared the same day.
• Twittered about two or more residents and taunt his MP Teresa Pearce more than once with inaccurate slurs.
• Someone with
a wife who works very closely
indeed with the Head of Member Services.
…but I don’t know who is behind the new blog because Google blogs won’t reveal
the author and takes no responsibility for the content. So further speculation is pointless.
I don’t know what Read means by the alleged untruth about himself. (See image.) There is not a
shadow of doubt he bought the bonkers.com domain, it has his name and address on it. He has
admitted being married to Eva on Twitter. He definitely
lied to the News Shopper about Teresa Pearce
because it is not difficult to trace an MP’s official movements and whether or not they
skipped a debate, and I confirmed everything with the House of Commons. And that’s all
there is about Philip Read on this web site - I ran a search utility. If there is anything
inaccurate on Bonkers it gets changed. One councillor at least knows that.
I don’t intend to return to the subject of the council’s blog very often. If you
need a link there is one on
the Blog Index.