19 February (Part 1) - Excitement over
After the excitement of the last few days with
Bexley Council’s financial
woes to the fore there won’t be anything of interest until Monday evening’s
Cabinet meeting which will deal with nothing but the state of the depleted coffers. The
Agenda is full of big figures like £15·285 million for BexleyCo and £3 million
to Rockfire, the company that the financial press tells us
has gone bust. You can be pretty sure that won’t be mentioned at the meeting.
Will something come to light to excuse the ignominy of being one of the four
Councils to seek a Capitalisation Order? Including Unitary Authorities and the
like there are 408 ‘Councils’ in GB & NI so there must have been something very
different about Bexley. It cannot be the worst Covid affected although it is
undeniably badly treated by Central Government. Has something been missed that
would make Bexley’s performance a bit better than it looks to be on the surface?
So an uneventful - read boring - weekend ahead. In a family email I said I was
beginning to climb the walls as a result of Prime Minister Johnson’s false data led tyranny
and found that several of us were all tipping towards the edge at the same
time. Some of this Government’s recent actions might be seen as a little extreme
even in North Korea and as for the police…
The one good thing to have come out of Covid is that more people
now know that some police officers have very little common sense. Power corrupts and all that.
Dictatorial edicts appear to be contagious. The East Ham house insurance
reminder came in this week and I took a certain amount of delight in telling
Saga (see image below) where they could stick it. If I am unvaccinated I am a menace to
myself more than to those around me who have taken the necessary precautions.
A much bigger dilemma will arise if sports venues take the same view. My
membership of Surrey Cricket Club was a complete waste of money last year and I
am not sure their offer of free beer this year is sufficient compensation as I
usually take my own orange juice to drink. If they do a Saga on me my
membership will have to cease. Government imposed tyranny is bad enough without
me encouraging it with my own money.
See you after the Cabinet meeting probably.
