1 November - Incompetence rules the roost in Bexley
As you will likely know, this blog began in 2009 because
I discovered that Bexley Council was blatantly lying to hide the effects of
management incompetence. I naively thought it must be a ‘one off’ but Council lies kept
Bonkers in regular employment until 2016 at least when some tailing off was detected.
Way back in 2010 lying proved to be not the least of the problems and Bonkers
borrowed the slogan Dishonest, Vindictive, Criminal from the pages of The News
Shopper because it was a succinct summary of the attitudes displayed by Councillors and Management alike.
But that seemed to fade away too leaving only the persistent theme of management
failure. Bexley has seen managers who led the borough to Inadequate OFSTED
results, managers who
failed to prevent a child death, another who, contrary to
advice, made a staffing cut which
led directly to the death of an old lady in their care. A
legal team that lied to the extent that the
police took a keen interest in their
activities and a legal team who more than once took residents to Court and lost.
The word used by the judge to describe their activities was “unconscionable”.
More recently new management conducted a staff survey which revealed the poorest
of management styles within Bexley Council including bullying and remoteness.
And how could anyone forget
Kevin
Taylor’s lame attempt to justify the blocking of a road by one of his staff members?
Even more recently we have seen @tonyofsidcup
branded vexatious for a series of
Freedom of Information requests the legality of which seemed to be more than a little dubious.
@tony is not a man to take things lying down and made a legal challenge. Over
coming days the details will appear here but meanwhile it is fair to say that
Bexley Council has been routed and humiliated and the principal reason is
management incompetence. Heads should roll but of course they won’t.