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News and Comment June 2022

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7 June - Teflon O’Neill

Conservative HomeThe recently re-elected Leader of Bexley Council has a knack for avoiding trouble. When the Leader was busy misappropriating Council funds in 2009 and she was his Deputy, she knew absolutely nothing about it and the police were persuaded that they could not accept a crime report from anyone but her, and guess what…

When she was told in writing that Council related obscenities about me and others had appeared on line they disappeared within two hours of that advice; but she knew nothing about it. When her Chief Executive, a Councillor and several staff members were referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for Misconduct in a Public Office, Teresa O’Neill remained aloof.

When Council mismanagement was implicated in the death of an elderly lady two Council employees told me of the Leader’s close involvement in the cover-up but she successfully dodged the headlines.

Councillor O’Neill leaves the lying to the experts and when a number of readers drew my attention to her Conservative Home article I am afraid I decided there was nothing new in it and a request to re-examine it today has done nothing to change my view. It’s a repetition of the same old deceptions that we have come to expect from Bexley Conservatives.


Wikepedia “Residents gave us a decisive endorsement.” (Only 74,254 Tory votes out of a potential 481,255 (†). 15·4%. Very decisive!)

“Every one of our 2018 pledges were delivered in full, so have all the pledges made since 2006.” (Total nonsense. Failed on school performance, failed on tree planting. Confirmed by their own FOI responses.)

And so on. New libraries (we are still waiting), top recycling for 17 years (simply not true, but close), financial stability (one of only six Councils to apply for a Government bale out.)

Same old stuff you have read about many times before. The only interesting thing that emerged from the second look is how Wikipedia can be horribly wrong. It says that the Conservatives won 35,207 votes in 2018 and 74,254 votes this year. When I added up their 2018 votes on the same Wikipedia page the number came to 91,567. So the Tories lost the support of 17,313 residents. Yeah, definitely a decisive endorsement.

Losing a fifth of their votes is not a landslide and if Teresa O’Neill thinks otherwise she will follow her blonde haired hero to disaster.

† There are 176,674 registered voters but not all wards provide for three votes.

 

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