27 August (Part 2) - Elephants and former Bexley Council staff never forget
Within a couple of hours of Part 1 going on line this morning a reader with a better memory than mine sent me this…
Well the Monitoring Officer failed. Was this not the same reason Angela Hogan
left suddenly a few years ago… I remember there was some coverage of the
event. I will check why the Senior Legal Officer left.
I had wondered if the reasons for Monitoring Officers coming and going over the past 14 years might
make an interesting future story but I must confess I had forgotten Angela
Hogan. As far as I can recall she was pushed out of her job as Head of Legal
Services after being on the wrong side of the affair that led to a former
Bexley Council Leader receiving a suspended prison sentence.
On the other hand it could be that she wanted to shop him contrary to Leader Teresa O’Neill’s wishes. That would be a sackable offence.
From memory only one of Bexley Council’s Monitoring Officers has not left under
a cloud and I would speculate that she was too honest for the job.
Not being caught out is probably the secret to long term survival.
To help my anonymous memory jogger with his research
an Index to all references to Angela Hogan
has been hastily created.