11 June (Part 2) - Can’t answer; won’t answer
Lose,
refuse, delay, dodge - that is the normal response when Bexley council is asked
difficult questions, then recently we had the defence of
questions being labelled rhetorical.
On that occasion it was the ruthless Greg Tippett who dreamed up the new question avoidance scheme.
Now he has found another. He has claimed that if anyone asks how he or his department justified
reporting Martin Peaple to the police
for carrying a placard on the pavement then only the police can answer the question. The man seems to be the epitome of deviousness.
A week or so ago one of the council whisperers referred to Mr. Tippett in a long
email. Interesting though leaks can be they don’t usually satisfy my criteria of authenticity;
I like to be able to put things within “quotation marks” because I absolutely know them
to be true. I cannot therefore reveal much of the Parking Department leak and will probably
do no more than confirm what you imagine to go on. In reviewing a less than clear case captured
on camera someone in a senior position is alleged to have said “Put it through anyway,
we’ll find a way around it; it won’t be the first time”. Another favoured phrase is
said to be “There’s nothing like a ticket to sober you up at breakfast on a Monday morning”.
Craske and Tippett, they look a nice pair don’t they?