21 October (Part 1) - Bexley broke?
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the likely consequences of the many Covid
Cock-ups you may already be depressed by what the
future holds. One set of politicians trying to shift the blame to the other helps no one.
It’s no wonder the suicide rates are up and in my case thoughts turn to moving
out of London. A Congestion Zone on our doorstep will finish off London as a
thriving City if the bus Lanes and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods haven’t succeeded in doing so first.
Some people seem to think that is what it is all about.
There
is a Council Audit meeting in Bexley this evening and no one is better at spinning
bad news than @bexleynews on Twitter. It will be interesting to see how they
spin the situation the Council has landed us in.
Two years ago when there was another independent report on Bexley, the
spin was that financial management was strong while the spinners hoped that no one read to
the end of the document where it said that “tens of thousands of
hours of officers’ time is taken up annually achieving nothing in the way of positive outcomes”.
Since then the Finance Department has been taken over by immigrants from Barnet
and Newham, some would say rejects, and we now “have no detailed plans” and it
is “evidence of weakness in proper arrangements for planning finances effectively”.
And that is all pre-Covid!
Looks like proof that all the
anonymous messages that came from Bexley’s Finance
Department earlier in the year were true.
