I occasionally wonder why I continue with political blogging especially when
things hot up somewhat as they have this past week. I have reached a conclusion
on what should be done about the M.O.’s Section 7.2b defence and now have to find the words to clearly
express how that decision was reached and if I can say who and what helped me reach it.
It
is therefore something of a relief to be ticked off quite severely for
the blog
published two days ago. The one about Richard Diment signing the order for
someone to get busy with a paint brush in recognition of what Highway Code Rule 243 says
about parking on junctions.
What his predecessors failed to do in 36 years, Richard has done in three
months. But I am under the cosh for spreading thanks too widely.
Being critical of Bexley Council is not a job to win friends, in fact the
current Leader did her best to get me locked up for it, and I try to give
recognition where possible to the few I may retain.
Some of them have been invaluable over the past few days and a little of that
may leak out soon.
Today’s criticism is that I have given praise when none is due. I cannot go into
detail because I could take a few guesses at who might have used the
Contact Form and if I can do that one may safely assume I will not be the only one.
(But I could be completely wrong.)
However to get to the point and to my admonishment; praising my local Councillor for
“not actually achieving anything” and offering Peter Craske as an excuse is apparently pretty
sloppy reporting. I suppose I must plead guilty to that. I hope I am meticulous with the
serious stuff but some things can, I feel, be treated with a degree of levity.
Unrelenting criticism must surely get monotonous.
Similarly another of my ward Councillors providing a web link
“simply tells us how poor things have become”. Maybe, but I was thankful for it. He didn’t have to do it.
The complaining message refers to a number of similar things which I know little or nothing about but one of them provoked my
guess as to the source, so I had better shut up before a finger is pointed in the wrong direction.
However I think I can safely continue to maintain that Cabinet Member Richard Diment went above and beyond on the Liz line
parking issue, but when asked if it could be mentioned here, he modestly said he would prefer otherwise.
But even he has his detractors. Probably another anonymous message will drop
into my Inbox before too long. What is @tonyofsidcup doing this weekend?