6 April (Part 1) - Joined at the hip
Eric
Pickles the Communities Secretary, James Brokenshire, MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup,
Jonathan Rooks the Green Party’s GLA candidate and Ken Livingston the would-be
London Mayor, all agree with 2,219 Bexley residents that the subject of senior
salary levels in Bexley should be debated. So what does Boris Johnson think?
If you guess his office have no wish to show dissent from his favoured lady’s dishonest
abuse of Standing Order 84
you would be dead right. “The Council has made the decision that it would be inappropriate and unconstitutional to discuss
individual salaries and circumstances in a public meeting. This is a local
decision for the Council to make. It would not be appropriate for him to comment on this matter”.
Those carefully chosen words do not quite manage to support Bexley council.
Boris does not endorse the abuse of Standing Order 84 to prevent acceptance of
Elwyn Bryant’s petition but merely notes it. Elwyn has been persuaded that the
very obvious misuse of a Standing Order is something that should be reported to
the Local Government Ombudsman and he will no doubt be making his complaint very soon.
My computer is restored to service. Thank you to the Bonkers
reader who reminded me to take a back up image when I last had a problem with it
at the end of February. My only loss was some emails. I was a week out of date with the backups.