6 February (Part 2) - Ignorance is bliss
There has been another batch of Freedom of Information responses from Bexley Council which as anticipated, dodge the questions.
The
Council has a copy of the complainant against Councillor
Maxine Fothergill but is not prepared to provide any details.
They do not have any papers relating to the time of the meeting or any
invitation to attend it, or any advice of the result to the complainant either.
Is she still in ignorance of it?
No information is held that records what individual Sub-Committee
members had to say about the complaint. You would think in a quasi-legal
situation someone would have made a few notes. On the other hand Bexley’s Legal
Team Manager, Lynn Tyler, made a right old mess of recording
the Cheryl Bacon business too.
Notes, but no dates and no signatures on statements and innumerable inconsistencies which are
still under consideration by the Crown Prosecution Service.
There is no knowledge of what benefits were obtained by Councillor Fothergill
even though she was found guilty of Misconduct by benefitting from them.
Bexley Council is unwilling to make their own report into Councillor
Fothergill’s Misconduct public or any indication of what the allegation was. I
am beginning to think the evidence against her must have been very flimsy
indeed but Bexley Council is implying something more extreme by their refusal to write anything down.