1 June - The Mayor. It has been a very good year
Bexley Council managed to
mess up
the Mayor making webcast again which will have been a
disappointment to the families of those involved who may have wished to keep
a copy as a memento, however nothing political will have been lost because
it is always an exercise in back-slapping and the occasional bad joke.
However this year all the speakers were sincere in their praise of outgoing
Mayor Sue Gower. This tribute from Labour Leader Stefano Borella is typical:
opposition Councillors are not always quite so fulsome in their praise.
This audio clip brings two of my favourite Councillors together.
Councillor Stefano Borella (Labour Slade Green) speaks in praise of Mayor Sue Gower (Conservative Bexleyheath).
I really have no idea what a man as generous and nice as Stefano is doing in a party that freezes pensioners and squeezes the disabled.
The Conservatives probably don’t deserve Sue either.
Note: The reference to Darren is of course Sue’s husband who
has not been well recently but thankfully pretty much recovered now.