Some days there just isn’t anything to report but I don’t like to totally
disappoint site visitors so here is a little something.
Over the weekend an old friend and neighbour from when I lived in Farnborough,
Hampshire in the 1950s sent me this extract from the tenants’ handbook she
discovered among her mother’s effects. I liked the bit that emphasises how
councillors worked “entirely without pay or remuneration of any kind, on your
behalf” and “full Council meets once a month to decide on policies”. Now they
get up to £35,000 and meet only four or five times a year.
Whilst Farnborough Urban District Council encouraged tenants to attend its
meetings, Bexley is less than welcoming. The question for the next council
meeting which was submitted on 14th February with a comment about the
Data Protection Act
is still languishing without any form of acknowledgement or answer nearly two weeks later.
Maybe the Information Commissioner has had words with them.