18 December (Part 2) - The Joker
As
Councillor Hunt confirms here - too honest for his own good - Bexley has never
bothered to clear footpaths of snow. That will be one of the Cabinet Member for
Places’ decisions. Most things wrong with Bexley Council can be traced back to Peter Craske.
With temperatures hovering around zero and lower overnight since the snow fell a
week ago the footpaths have been treacherous with the elderly and infirm
confined to home or maybe an Accident & Emergency Department. (Photo below
taken this afternoon. Bins still awaiting collection.)
They
are probably neither elderly nor infirm but dustbin men and women may be
particularly vulnerable to slippery conditions although for me at least the
post has got through and I have literally had an Amazon delivery every day. (Up
from 148 deliveries ten days ago to 160 now. Another due later today and two more tomorrow.)
You will have noticed that your bins were not emptied last week. Craske again I
am afraid. CountryStyle, the company that was going to be so much better than
Serco gave up on tackling Councillor Craske’s ice rink. They suspended all
collections. Suspended as in Cancelled and not going to collect again until the week after
next. In my own case; next year.
The hope is that next week’s collections will be as scheduled. Believe it when it happens.
Note: For readers unfamiliar with the complexities of
Bexley’s bin collections, there are four differently coloured bins which are
emptied, two each, on alternate weeks. So if last week’s two are still out for
collection they will have to wait there until the week after next, plus the days
lost to the holiday.