Met.
Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu has been roundly condemned by everyone
from the Prime Minister, through the Tory leadership contenders Boris Johnson
and Jeremy Hunt down to every tin pot journalist for attempting to dictate what newspapers publish.
A few pages have been removed from BiB recently but that was my decision in recognition of the fact that
Bexley Council may have made an effort to clean up its act; some in the past being indisputably criminal. The job took quite some time and wasn’t completed until
late May.
I mentioned
the revisions here soon afterwards. No one commented which was a bit disappointing.
Former Councillors Massey benefited from that decision. Fothergill too because
both are former Councillors and no longer able to directly
bring the alleged disrepute on to Bexley Council. No dictatorial police involved!
For newcomers to Bonkers, I had repeated Bexley Council‘s assertion via their
Code of Conduct Committee that Fothergill
was likely to have brought them into disrepute because of her financial antics -
but Bonkers found reasons to doubt that verdict and proclaim her innocence. It also
reported
how she ran foul of Sevenoaks Council for flouting planning law and had to apologise in
the High Court and pay out a substantial sum to recompense her libelling of two
business associates. All matters of public record that were removed from Bonkers on my initiative.
I was always totally mystified why she thought my lengthy investigations into
the reprimand dished out by Bexley’s Code of Conduct Committee was harassing her when
I found in her favour. Councillors can be very odd people.