Things are quiet on the Bonkers front at the moment but busy for me personally so it may be a day or two before there is much new here.
There
has been some correspondence about mayor
Alan Downing’s pen jabbing activities. The Standards Board
leaned over backwards in May
(councillors Cheryl Bacon and Alex Sawyer on that occasion) to try to absolve Councillor Downing from all blame but felt
obliged to say “Councillor Downing’s response to the request for the microphone
to be turned on could be considered as disrespectful”. Anything less and it would
have been a total whitewash. However it now looks as though Bexley council is pulling
back from that by blaming the deaf man for being deaf just as Downing did when he
said “you must have personal problems”. Bexley council looks to be saying it is the deaf
who are disrespectful if they ask for a a microphone to be switched on. This may sound
incredible to you as it did to me but with councillor Val Clarke, whose year as mayor provided
so much unbelievable stupidity,
involved, anything is possible.
As an observant reader pointed out, our ‘Listening council’ has used an image with no ears to illustrate
its complaints procedure. More likely that’s an
X-Ray image and it shows no brain.
When all the correspondence becomes available I’ll let you see some extracts
so that the full extent of any dishonesty and stupidity can be seen by all.