The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
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.