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21 March - Beyond contempt. Beyond the rules

Every now and again Bexley Council issues a reminder that it is fundamentally dishonest.

On Thursday their Code of Conduct Committee will meet for the first time in a year, the main task being to appoint an Independent Person. Supposedly an independent member of the community to assist the Committee to reach decisions. It helps enormously if you are a Conservative, and preferably from a politically active family.

However the Agenda reveals that there were four new complaints against Councillors last year and as is usually the case every single one of them was dismissed.

The first on the 2021 list below is mine. The Code of Conduct says that social media blocking is not allowed unless the levels of abuse are exceptional. Councillor Philip Read Twitter blocked me in July 2013, on the 15th, the day I announced I had opened an account.

Obviously there had been no exchange between us although Read soon got busy streaming abuse in my direction. When Teresa Oְ’Neill reluctantly joined Twitter she opened with Bonkers on the block list. Obviously no comment from me again so both blocks were a blatant offence against Bexley Council’s own rules.

But Conservative Councillors are beyond criticism and to be fair it is more than likely that the complaint never got to the Committee but flung out by the Monitoring Officer of the day, someone not renowned for his impartiality.

Interestingly, maybe, this is the first time I have seen the result of my complaint. I was told that the response was so secret that I could only read it if I gave my email address to a private security company with which I had no relationship. I refused to do so and was refused a straight answer to my complaint.

When you vote in May please remember that certain Bexley Tories are dishonest, maybe even corrupt, and probably always will be.
Code of Conduct Agenda
Note: I was sent this link about Cressida Dick anonymously and passed it on to Alastair Morgan who was grateful because he had not seen it. He told me that tomorrow the Metropolitan Police are due to publish their response on being labelled ‘Institutionally Corrupt’ by a Home Office sponsored inquiry panel. They have already refuted that finding so tomorrow’s is sure to be a whitewash.

Alastair was promised an embargoed advance copy so that he can be prepared for press enquiries. It was not forthcoming.

 

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