27 January - Everyone is welcome - including Will Tuckley
I
used to try to pace entries to the blog so that there was something for every
day but it’s too much like hard work. Now I generally process everything as it
arrives leaving tomorrow to chance. Something usually turns up but occasionally
it doesn’t. I was expecting to have some photos to illustrate a council created road
problem in Crayford for today but through nobody’s fault it was not to be, hence
a bit of weekend style trivia coming early.
It was mildly amusing to look at the web stats for yesterday mid way through
the day and find that the Greater London Authority, the Houses of Parliament and
Bexley council had all looked in twice and the alphabetical sequencing (among
those with identical numbers of visits) placed them all together in 24th, 25th and
26th place. That’s two visits each. The page hits were rather higher. Topping
the list as usual was NTL Bromley (their local node) followed by BT and Sky etc.
with hundreds of visits between them. The GLA can be guaranteed to take a look
whenever Boris Johnson’s name is mentioned. Bexley council’s presence is harder to explain
as Bonkers is supposed to be banned on their server.
Boris will no doubt be embarrassed as more details of Bexley’s obscene blog leak
out in the 100 days left before his election, serves him right for choosing his friends badly.
I had a phone call yesterday from someone made redundant from Bexley council;
she wondered what Will Tuckley actually does with practically all services
outsourced. She is not the only one. If Tuckley was the world class manager that
Teresa O’Neill thinks he is surely he would have come up with a more sensible
tactic than having the police report me to the Crown Prosecution Service for
“criticising councillors”. Is that the best he can do? Perhaps he should
read this. “The world of local news and comment is changing quickly; local authorities
need to change with it.” Maybe Mr. Tuckley should seek Katie Perrior’s advice, her new
website proclaims
that she is “dedicated to remaining open and transparent in all of our endeavours”.
That’s a novel idea, maybe Katie could sell it to Bexley council and make some more money.