23 June (Part 2) - From the weekend postbag
I’ve been away and have returned from successfully negotiating the car park which was the M25.
Not just around the M4 and M3 but also at the Bromley exit where a large caravan had
been turned partially to matchwood. On Saturday I found myself at a two year old’s birthday
party in a very windy Wales, so a bit of a busman’s holiday really.
The visitors’
score on Friday
reached 1,634; probably half arrived by accident but that still leaves a good number who have
learned a little more about Bexley council. Nearly 2% dropped me an email and apart from the
‘go easy’
guidance of last week none were even remotely critical of the ‘shameful’ blog which
Paul
Moore took issue with. While I wind down from the long motorway journey allow me
to fill you in with a selection from the weekend’s crop…
• I think Moore has somehow come to think of you as an errant council employee.
• Why is Paul Moore coming on so strong? Because you've got them rattled and they've told him in
no uncertain terms that they want you silenced once and for all. May God give
you the courage not to give in to these bully-boy tactics.
• Greetings Malcolm, you nasty man. How dare you place things on the internet that are already on the, erm,
internet. There was a real prospect of the council taking you seriously until
you did that. Take it down now or we’ll have Biffa work you over a bit before
throwing you down the stairs and having you arrested for damaging council property.
• You have merely passed polite comment.
• I don’t think you have overstepped the mark.
And from somewhere nearer the other end of the spectrum…
• Take the moral high ground. Remove the offending blog in return for a meeting
with Moore - or even Tuckley - to assist their inevitable transition to more
openness in a way that allows them to save face.
Actually I offered Mr. Moore
an off the record meeting but he did not respond.