6 September (Part 1) - Olly Cromwell and his petition
Bexley
council’s spokesman may be trying to convince everyone that John Kerlen is
subject to a restraining order to curtail his democratic rights, probably Bexley
council would be happy to see such a thing imposed on all its critics, but it
just ain’t so.
The appeal judge lifted it and John Kerlen will be back; his ban on attending
council meetings expired months ago. As you can see from the extract from Will Tuckley’s
January 2012 letter, John is banned for writing stuff which makes some inadequate
councillors feel threatened but which a judge pronounced entirely lawful. He is
also banned for adhering to Eric Pickles’ guidance on filming and peacefully objecting
to being excluded from a meeting in circumstances that would not be permissible under the
new rules coming in next week.
Now that Bexley council’s stupidity has made John a well known personality in the national
media the latter will be eager to expose any further stupidity by Bexley’s rotten council.
One of the things John Kerlen has already done is to set up
his petition
website. I mentioned it on Monday but didn’t explain it because I was unsure of how it
stood relative to the Local Government Act 2000 and the Localism Bill. It would
take a great deal of time and perhaps some legal expertise to unravel that lot
but I felt nevertheless I should be offering more background information than
John provided on the petition website. Fortunately John has now remedied the omission with
a blog on the subject. If you wish to know more of what he has in mind, then
that is the place to look. It is remarkably free of rude words.