18 March (Part 1) - What a Twonk - (Google it!)
Yesterday’s
Bexley Times
was not up to Shopper standards in its report on
last week’s council meeting;
maybe that is because it didn’t obviously have a reporter there. However on an inside page
it reported the use of
the T word
against a Labour councillor and the fact that it went unchallenged by the
chairman mayor. To me the latter was by far the most important story even though it may not
be so immediately eye-catching as a rude word. The fact we have a councillor who said something
he regrets and has apologised for is one thing, but on the other hand we have a
mayor who is clearly not up to the job of chairing anything. Instead of recognising
her shortcomings she is so full of herself that she penned a message to a member of
the public
to tell him to mug up on chairmanship with a book before complaining
about her performance again. Unknown to the mayor the complainer is very familiar
with the book which chairman Clark doesn’t seem to have read at all. The mayor
behaves like an ass and seems to be intent on proving it beyond doubt.
Unlike the unfortunate councillor who is pilloried by the press for an out of character
remark, the chairman mayor encourages bad behaviour by her Conservative cronies through
her long term failure to control it. Her presence is driving away any semblance of
professionalism in the council chamber.
Question to Craske… “Given that the Borough Parking Control Account has provided a surplus every
year since 2006-7, and since that time has provided £2,899,000 of support to the
Mayor’s Transport Strategy across the Borough please can the Councillor explain
to me why he felt that this analysis of his own accounts [the need for a price
rise] was justified.”
Answer… “Strategy 2014 [the cuts document] clearly stated that the Council would
now be seeking full cost recovery for all non essential discretionary services and that
it would no longer keep such costs artificially low.”
Lord Citrine writes in Clark’s bible on chairmanship… “Our Chairman must be on the
look-out for gentlemen, who, with their heads full of some subject,
however remote, are determined to get it into the discussion”.
If Clark is as good a chairman as she tells people she is, why wasn’t
Crask pulled up on that little diversionary tactic?