28 June (Part 2) - A stitch in time…
Baroness O’Neill of Bexley (BOOBs for short) devoted
a
whole speech last November to castigating Dimitri Shvorob for causing the
Council to waste too much money answering his questions to which his response
was that if they answered the first one properly there would be no need for any more.
That is what Mick Barnbrook used to tell them after they said his FOIs were
vexatious. Dimitri won his case when he took it to the ICO but Mick didn’t
because Bexley Council told them he was a racist whose FOIs pursued a racist agenda and
that, as is well known, is a Get out of Jail card for most things.
It seems that I may be embarking on a similar course.
On Wednesday 29th May, Kelly Wilkinson, a Bexley Council employee,
blocked my
road to all through traffic and made no apology for so doing. Two days later I
made a formal complaint and was immediately told it would be answered within five days.
That is four weeks ago and I have received not a single word of a reply. My complaint did not set out to be especially difficult.
Following a reference to the photographic attachments it simply said…
Instead of offering an apology your employee said nothing at all and drove off.
This is a formal complaint against Kelly Wilkinson who has besmirched Bexley
Council’s reputation before me and two neighbours by not only blocking the road
which is a criminal offence but failing to offer any apology or possible
explanation for her criminal activities.
I would also suggest that in case of
emergency a pre-prepared card with contact details should be left on display so
that residents, ambulance and fire engine drivers might be able to pass.
An answer could be knocked up in a matter of minutes by any manager with
half a brain but maybe Bexley has none who are quite that clever.
No answer in four weeks obviously justifies another complaint but I decided on a
different course.
It is now four weeks since you said my complaint would be
answered within five working days.
I believe a Subject Access Request to be the appropriate vehicle for this and I
hereby submit one for myself.
I have no wish to make your response especially arduous and I would be content
to see it covering only the period from the end of May 2024 until the date of answering.
My object is to trace the progress of my complaint, i.e. To whom was it first
sent and when, and the various stages it has been though since then.
It is regrettable that a Council failure is once again causing unnecessary expense.
regards,
Bexley Council now has a month to respond or the ICO will be hearing about them once again.
There is no need to wonder why Bexley has close to
the highest Council Tax in
London, none of their managers were taught that ‘A stitch in time saves nineְ’.
Idiots, all of them.