5 July (Part 4) - Photography and Bexley council
Regular readers will know that I have no desire to audio or video record Bexley
council meetings, in my opinion nothing could be more boring. However the
occasional still photograph might be a welcome addition to the blog.
I went through the ‘would it be OK if I took a picture under your direction before the meeting started?’ routine several months ago and
Kevin Fox rejoiced in saying ‘No’,
but I thought I’d try again following
the recent guidance
from the Department of Communities and Local Government.
It took more than two weeks to get a response but yesterday the Director of Corporate
Services gave me an answer. ‘No’ again.
I have uploaded
the complete email trail
so that you may see what I requested and read the council’s considered reply. It
is the second of the four emails.
To reject a request to take a single photograph may torpedo any argument Colin Campbell plans to put forward on
The Sunday Politics
Show. The producer is aware of the latest correspondence. As for
Director Paul Moore, I think it will almost certainly be a case of ‘Please don’t
shoot the messenger’. He will be doing council leader Teresa O’Neill’s bidding.