18 November - Children’s train rides and juvenile concerns
My thanks to those who have enquired where I am or should that be have been? The answer is, Friday up a
tree with a saw, Saturday in Wiltshire and Sunday in Hampshire. Adjacent
counties but a two hour drive apart.
Back home there is nothing of note to report about Bexley council; they are not answering any enquiry about
Cheryl Bacon,
their own lies having made the search for an escape route somewhat problematical. Also we seem to have an early Christmas
close down. There is a five week gap between council meetings other than routine
planning and licensing committees. The only one in December is Cabinet on the 18th.
Speaking of Christmas, the Broadway festivities last Saturday probably did not
do a lot to help the traders.
Just come back from Saturday morning shopping in the Broadway. Bexley council
have allowed a proliferation of stands/concessions/stalls/displays even a stage
from the Clock Tower all the way down the supposedly pedestrian area leaving
very little width in places for actual pedestrians.
Then presumably to rake in even more money the council have allowed another
concession for a tractor (dressed up as an engine) plus several coaches to drive
up and down the narrow gap between the stalls and the shop fronts. Driver was
not best pleased when I stood my ground insisting that I as a pedestrian had
priority in a pedestrian area and he could wait for me no matter how hard he
beeped his horn!
At last week’s Cabinet meeting it was related how business is down again - the Broadway regeneration being blamed.
At
the trivial end of Bexley news is this little Twitter exchange between UKIP and
the mayor’s daughter Elizabeth Massey.
The council’s website confirms the relationship.
Beth Massey appears to be casting aspersions on the integrity and accuracy of
this website.
I would hope that the amount of documentary evidence made available would
convince most people that what may be read here is likely to be correct or work
things out for themselves. Maybe that is why the only time I have been challenged is
when reporting a councillor’s dishonesty and the dissenters admitted they were related
to him and were
self-proclaimed petty criminals. Some of them even waylaid
and beat up a B-i-B contributor.
Such is the company kept by Conservative councillors in Bexley.
Beth Massey has yet to respond to UKIP’s challenge. Maybe she knows as well as I
do that it was Don Massey who took the lead role in deciding to not accept the
2,219 signature petition on senior salary levels and ignoring the similarly
sized petition about the management of the Howbury Centre.
Please Beth, you are a 19 year old studying politics and undoubtedly an expert, so it
shouldn’t be difficult for you to tell me exactly where Bexley is Bonkers has attempted
to mislead the populace or even made a simple mistake. There must be
some somewhere. No one is perfect, Bexley Tories excepted of course.
