17 October - Rewriting history
Until the next two Scrutiny meetings are over and done with BIB is likely to
be quiet. I cannot be at this evening’s Children’s Services meeting so it is
fingers crossed that that they do not
screw up the
webcast as they did last time. Will the Committee comment on
the three big
Local Government Ombudsman failures in August? The Agenda suggests they will.
I think I have gone through all the anonymous messages from people who appear
to know the inside of Bexley’s Ivory Tower. I found some of the short financially
based comments a little too esoteric for publication here. If I am not quite
sure what the real message is I am reluctant to repeat it.
If any contributor feels aggrieved or I have missed something
non-financial, then you know what to do.
The recent slack period has been used to restore some of the old blogs. It happened so
long ago that I cannot remember exactly what happened but intending to edit one
page the software was inadvertently set to Global and I wrecked the lot and they
were taken off line. If you ask why I did not revert to a backup, I have no idea. There must have been a reason at the time.
The IT accident seemed like an opportunity to regurgitate the old stuff in the current
format and at one point I was not only checking all the links but also searching out old
photos to improve their online quality.
In practice that was taking years of spare time - literally - so a few months ago I
abandoned hunting for and reprocessing old photos and things speeded up considerably. The years 2009
through to 2014 are now complete and the most
recent update is 2nd January 2015. It deals with a parking injustice in
Abbey Road, Belvedere. It still exists to this day, fining people unfairly, and I
am absolutely certain that Bexley Council knows about it - because I showed them in person myself.
Despite the headline very little text has been changed.
Some of the dishonesty reported is absolutely shocking however one Councillor is no
longer consistently referred to as a liar because I am now almost certain that
she was set up by dishonest Council Officers; none of whom reside in the Ivory Tower any longer.
Whilst 2018 is on the menu it is incomplete and unchecked and mainly there to
support link backs from 2019-2023.