28 May (Part 1) - Business as usual
So we’ve elected another corrupt council which was always inevitable, only the size of it was in doubt. At present only a tiny proportion of Bexley residents have any idea of the extent of their council’s dishonesty, the majority are happy to swallow the Tory lie that Bexley is a low tax borough so long as their bins are emptied on time. A lot more effort must go into exposing the cheats over the next four years.
It
is easy to be wise after the event but I was both hoping and expecting Labour to
gain a few more seats than four and that UKIP would do a bit better in the North. It
looks as though Labour is back in charge of their strongholds despite what councillor
Philip Read may have said, and in retrospect one can see that the huge immigrant population
in the North will have done UKIP no favours. They will have learned from that.
In my road which is not in the depths of Thamesmead by any means, and for up to 30 houses
away at least, there are only two households which are occupied solely by ‘White
British’; which isn’t to say they are bad neighbours or bad people, it’s just fact, and that must be hard for UKIP.
My analysis of the real election numbers has been minimal so far but if I cut this blog short I
hope to go some way towards remedying that today.
The election drew quite a lot of extra visitors to B-i-B so perhaps I should attempt to justify labelling Bexley council dishonest and corrupt.
It
is now well over two months since Mick Barnbrook
went back to Chief Executive
Will Tuckley with more evidence that councillor
Cheryl Bacon
appears to be a consummate
liar. Not one councillor or other witness has backed Bacon’s version of
the events of
19th June last year. Several witness including councillors from both parties
have certified that Bacon lied in an attempt to cover up her law breaking - not
that the law breaking matters, it was relatively trivial and maybe the result of
incorrect officer advice. The important issue is that we now know that many of
Bexley’s highest paid officers are all prepared to lie in Cheryl Bacon’s defence.
You would think that faced with overwhelming evidence that his officers and
councillor Bacon have been lying, Tuckley would be keen to get to the bottom of the
matter, but no, he has completely ignored the 17th April letter. None of the councillors
who told the truth, the names of whom Tuckley now knows, have heard a word from him.
So if not seeking the truth what has this quarter of a million pound waste of space been doing?
It could be that he has been repeating
a trick that worked before. Getting the police on his side.
The
statements allegedly made by what I described at the time as “two jovial
bobbies” have been declared a secret but we are led to believe that they support the council’s
version of events. i.e. That I and others refused to leave the Council Chamber
and had to be ejected by the police. No one can explain why we were not arrested and
why the initial police reports confirmed that no offences had been committed. Now
when that story doesn’t match Bexley council’s lies the police are trying to retract
it. Difficult when a copy exists on
the News Shopper’s website.
Bexley police are once again well and truly embroiled in trying to defend their
crooked friends. Mick Barnbrook has been informed verbally that one of the
council witnesses has changed his statement, in what way is not known. The fact
is that in all relevant respects Bexley council’s story is a lie from beginning
to end which unravels very easily when subject to detailed examination.
Chief Superintendent Peter Ayling is now boxed into a very difficult
position; it is perfectly obvious to anyone who reads through all the papers
that he is being asked to defend a story that cannot possibly be true. His two
predecessors were placed in a similar position by Bexley council and are now being
investigated for a criminal offence. A hat trick looks ever more likely.
And that reminds me that the police are asking more questions about CS Stringer
and CS Olisa and I’ve got to find the time to answer their letter.
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