As stated yesterday Bexley Council is shortly to lose a lot of its
Councillors, 18 of them. Maybe there will be more, replaced by new faces.
As has been said before, Bexley Council appears to have cleaned up its act
considerably in recent years. If you can be bothered to read back through blogs
for 2010 and 2011 you will find a staggering amount of dishonesty and occasional
criminal activity reported. Maybe I am an optimist but I think we have seen
the worst of it and while we will no doubt continue to see political lies,
blatant law breaking will remain a thing of the past.
To that end, as some sort of olive branch, the blogs that have provided every
last detail of suspect or even reprehensible Councillor activity has been progressively removed, especially those
which relate to Councillors who will no longer be with us come next May.
This is very much a manual process and the job is not complete but within the next month it should be.
The most critical comment relating to Councillors who remain but appear to have
reformed has also been modified. The derogatory description of Councillor Leader
O’Neill suggested to me by one of her own colleagues has already gone - assuming I haven’t missed one.