Banner
any day today rss X

News and Comment September 2020

Index: 2009201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024

14 September (Part 2) - A deceptionist’s delight

TweetIf you are not on Twitter, and from tomorrow I might not be, you may not know that a new facility was introduced last month; you can restrict who can reply to your comment.

This is an absolute boon to liars, crooks and Bexley Conservatives. They are now free to lie their socks off content in the knowledge that no one can correct them on Twitter.

It is the sort of dictatorial Conservatism that has unfortunately become the norm.

So the local Labour party cannot counter the Tory’s dishonesty. Bexley-is-Bonkers, while a shadow of its former self fortunately can.

Ten years ago Bexley Council sold its Howbury Estate in Slade Green for £14 million to Redrow Homes and decided that nearly half of the proceeds should be spent on the wealthier parts of the borough leaving only around 8 million for Slade Green.

2,280 residents protested about the loss of facilities and the price increases proposed on those that were to be reinstated.

What the Labour Councillors voted against was the effective theft of £6 million by Bexley Council from the most deprived area in the borough.

In 2011 it was reported that 36·5% of children in Slade Green were living in poverty, 36% left school with no qualifications at all and that the ward was in the top 5% of most deprived wards in the country. Bexley Council had not consulted sufficiently and was reducing their investment below what was possible choosing to spend their windfall where there were more votes to be had.

 

Return to the top of this page
Bonkers is a cookie free zone. Not a single one