11 March (Part 5) - Some lighter stuff
Let’s get away from Bexley’s mad scramble to restrict civic rights for a
moment and take a look at something I regard as just an oversight; I hope I am
not being too generous. It concerns the Arts Council website which councillor
John Davey has done quite a nice job on and paid for it too. He had a silly
run-in with the Bexleyheath Chronicle’s letter pages after putting
political links on its front page which you can read about
here if you feel the need; but he apparently came to his senses and quietly
removed the political links only a day or two after
they were defended at last week’s council meeting.
If you take a look at his site (Google Arts Council of Bexley - I’m
not going to give him a link and further boost his search engine ratings - and
then add ETCA/councilelections.html behind the final .org.uk/ of the web address
you will discover all sorts of political stuff remains on the Arts Council
website. I can’t find a link to it from the main pages and as Mr. Davey pays to
store those pages there I can’t see any harm in it. From what I have read it is
all hopelessly out of date electoral statistics and it bears last year’s copyright
date. Compared to the threat of arrest for trying to follow government guidelines
it’s pretty small beer. Fun and games coming with Mayor Clark though, that will be more fun.
Since I do not feel well disposed to the police today I shall in an act of pure
self indulgence refer you to
www.justice4daniel.org. You may recognise the style of the website. Daniel
Morgan was part of my extended family and until recent years the Metropolitan
Police were as bent as you could possibly imagine about the investigation of
his murder. It is pretty much certain that one of their officers was very closely involved.