2 April - If you are going to tell a whopper, make it big and say it often
The tree planting numbers were
manipulated in order to get close to the target.
The all schools to be rated good or outstanding promise was missed by a wide margin.
There was no sign of the extra two hectares of green space.
Eight thousand new homes are nowhere near to being built.
If there are public wi-fi hotspots they were not
provided by Bexley Council and the promised litter picking penalties were
actually introduced early in 2016 so had no business being in the 2018 Manifesto at all. The Council issued
a Press Release about it.
The biggest lie of all remains the one about Bexley being a low tax borough. In
2021/22 only seven London Councils levied higher taxes than Bexley. That may change this year, Barnet Council, for example,
already about 6% cheaper than Bexley,
has frozen its Council Tax at last year’s level.
2018 Manifesto.