29 May (Part 4) - Round in circles - click any image for photo gallery (5 images)
There
was a reader’s letter in the February issue of the Bexleyheath Chronicle
criticising the fact that the taxpayer funded Arts Council of Bexley had links
from its website to local Conservative party sites. In a letter the following
month, councillor John Davey somewhat incredibly attempted to excuse it and was subsequently
supported by councillor Catterall
at a council meeting. Then someone had second thoughts and the front page links were withdrawn and hidden away where
they couldn’t easily be seen.
But now we are back to square one. The only thing that is on the
front page of the Arts Council site is what you see here. Four web links, two of
them to the local Conservative party’s sites. I was not
unduly critical of the previous compromise arrangement, not by
Olly Cromwell’s
standards anyway, but the current situation is just asking for more criticism.
Does anyone really expect to Google Arts Council of Bexley and get a site that
takes you to Lesnes Abbey Conservatives? Whether the fact that the links
don’t work makes things better or even more idiotic I’m not sure.
Giving the page a title of ‘Jane McTrae’ would be just to confuse matters you might
think, in fact it indicates the page is based on a template that loads of people
have used. Some examples are placed below; they are all titled
‘Jane McTrae’ and all look much the same (note the font on the names as well as the
Jane McTrae title). Councillor Davey’s copyright notice on the web template is presumably
to cover his sites’ content only. No one else claims copyright of the template.
