24 January (Part 1) - Misconduct in Public Office
I
get told quite often that it is difficult for newcomers to follow
the story
of councillor Peter Craske’s phone line which is not surprising because it has
been going on for nearly three years. He must have cost taxpayer’s quite a lot
of money by way of police investigations but on the other hand he has saved some by resigning his £13,000 a
year cabinet job. “Personal reasons” he said which I suppose just about covers it.
When the Guardian newspaper asked me to send them a bundle of relevant documents
I discovered they were filed under various headings and linked from a variety of
obscure places, so I have spent some time bringing them all together with
a dedicated Index.
There are a number of ‘holes’ where it seemed inappropriate at the time to
publish topical letters and it may be possible to fill some of them given the
case has moved on a bit, but for scholars of Bexley council’s obscene blogging
activities it is now possible to follow the correspondence from the original blog and the
complaint to Will Tuckley right through to the allegations of Misconduct in
Public Office against former Borough Commanders Dave Stringer (for abandoning
the case claiming no evidence when his investigating officer knew better -
and then doing nothing with the evidence for months) and Victor Olisa (for
concocting excuses for Stringer and succumbing to political interference).
A number of such Indices exist and they are now listed on the menus above.
That other long running saga, Cheryl Bacon’s illegal meeting closure is
there too, it will prove useful of the Local Government Ombudsman asks more
questions. See ‘Navigation’ (Indices) on the Blog menu and ‘Miscellaneous’
(Indices) on the other one. (May need a page refresh before they are seen.)
Now where was I before I got led astray?