Bexley councillors - Surname Sequence

2010 - 2014

Cllr.	Ward	Party	Pay	Appointments
Kerry Allon	Belvedere		£9,417.96	Campaigned against the new ASDA store in Belvedere. Defeated in the May 2014 election.
Roy Ashmole	Christchurch		£9,417.96
Cheryl Bacon	Cray Meadows		£9,417.96 £8,802 (E)	Chairman: Public Realm, Community Safety, Economic Development and Regeneration Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Gareth Bacon	Longlands		£9,417.96 £13,197 (D)	Cabinet Member for the Environment and Public Realm If you thought that £40,000 a year from Bexley council was quite sufficient for the Bacon family, think again. Gareth is also a Greater London Authority Assembly member for which he was paid £53,439 last year. On top of that he claims a travel card at taxpayers’ expense worth another two grand. Nice work if you can get it eh? Close to £100,000 a year for a few hours a week, which is all he can comfortably fit in given that he holds a full time job as a financial recruitment consultant; he has certainly given himself good advice. It may not be illegal but to fleece the public purse of £100k. a year is some going; do you think that he is on the council for the benefit of the public or to put his snout in the trough? Bacon by name, piggies by nature. Despite all that his management skills may make him better value for money than any of his colleagues.
Linda Bailey	Danson Park		£9,417.96 £13,197 (D)	Cabinet Member for the Economic Development and Regeneration Struck a member of the public outside the council chamber. Explained it by saying “I can do what I like”.
Chris Ball	Erith		£9,417.96 £13,197 (C)	Leader of the Opposition Former leader of the council under whom local taxes rose 40%, contributing towards Bexley’s council tax rate being in 9th position on the list of London’s highest taxing councils. Stood down for the May 2014 elections.
Sandra Bauer	Thamesmead East		£9,417.96 £2,661 (F)	Deputy Leader of Opposition Opposition spokesman: Education Overview and Scrutiny Committee Made a statement to the police in the hope that a blogger critical of Bexley council would get a criminal record. The accusations failed to stand up in court. Stood down for the May 2014 elections.
Aileen Beckwith	Sidcup		£9,417.96
Brian Beckwith	Blackfen & Lamorbey		£9,417.96
Nigel Betts	Falconwood & Welling		£9,417.96	Connived with council deputy leader Campbell in his campaign to stop residents using the Freedom of Information Act to expose council dishonesty, incompetence and wastefulness.
Brian Bishop	Colyers		£9,417.96 £250.00 (N)
Edward Boateng	Erith		£9,417.96 £2,281.88 (F)	Opposition spokesman: Adults’ Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Stefano Borella	North End		£9,417.96 £379.12 (N)
Pat Cammish	Blendon & Penhill		£9,417.96	Stood down for the May 2014 elections.
Colin Campbell Deputy Leader	St. Mary’s		£99,417.96 £17,595 (B)	Deputy Leader of the Council The councillor so concerned that the dirty secrets the council attempts to protect might leak out through Freedom of Information (F.O.I.) requests that he proposed that those making such requests should have their details posted on the council’s website as a deterrent contrary to the Data Protection Act 1998. When faced with a police investigation into his department, involving paedophilia, allegations of drug importing and the theft of six figure sums of money, Campbell restored the accused manager to his job while on bail, approved the sacking of a whistleblower and then upheld the sacking at the appeal hearing he chaired. Is it any wonder he wishes to suppress F.O.I. requests with a track record like that?
Sybil Camsey	Brampton		£9,417.96
Peter Catterall	Falconwood & Welling		£9,417.96	In November 2010, suggested that severe traffic problems in Erith might be alleviated by removing an idiotic roundabout rather than by installing more impediments to progress. Could it be true that there is a lone advocate of common sense within this talentless council?
Val Clark	Falconwood & Welling		£9,417.96 £2,661 (H) £106.10 (Q)	Vice-Chairman: Planning Committee Mayor: 2010-2011 (Self appointed God’s gift to chairmanship).
Peter Craske	Blackfen & Lamorbey		£9471.96 £250 (N)	Cabinet Member for Public Realm until June 2012. Indirectly responsible for this site existing having reigned over a network of lies, deceit and incompetence in connection with a road redesign that adversely affects me daily. According to a local newspaper he personally intervened to ensure that a local resident who had offended him was put to an unnecessary extra expense of £550. Imposed a near tripling of residents’ parking charges while refusing all requests to justify the increase with detailed figures. Famously, his home telephone line was the source of on-line obscenities posted to the web but he denied he was responsible for them. Bexley police, the council’s Chief Executive and the Crown Prosecution Service met to “resolve his situation”.
Graham D’Amiral	Blendon & Penhill		£9,417.96
John Davey	Lesnes Abbey		£9,417.96	The man who named this website by telling me that council road planning was “completely bonkers” but don’t run away with the conclusion he is an honest man. Duplicity is his name; he thinks the planning is bonkers but was Vice-Chairman of the Road Planning Scrutiny sub-Committee at the time; a committee which seems to have strangely disappeared since. He also walks away when shown evidence of council malpractice and dishonesty. He has no great need to fleece the tax-payer with inflated expense claims as he has a similar sinecure with the health authority. No sense of right or wrong. Has politicised the Arts Council website by slipping in links to the Conservative Party on it and wrote to a local newspaper to say he was proud of what he had done.
Alan Deadman	North End		£9,417.96 £2,661 (F)	Deputy Leader of the Opposition Opposition spokesman: Environment and Leisure Overview and Scrutiny Committee. Thorn in Bexley’s Conservative side, quick to see through their dishonesty.
Alan Downing	St. Mary’s		£9,417.96 £7,547.96 (E)	Mayor: 2012-2013 Chairman: Crime and Disorder Overview and Scrutiny Committee Abused a deaf member of the public who asked for the microphones (and hence the hearing loop) to be switched on at a council meeting.
Ross Downing	Cray Meadows		£9,417.96 £8,802 (E)	Chairman: Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Jackie Evans	Sidcup		£6,481.18	Long term illness leading to resignation as soon as she was within six months of the next election date thereby depriving the electorate of a by-election
Maxine Fothergill	Colyers		£9,417.96 £250 (N)
John Fuller	Lesnes Abbey		£9,417.16 £13,197 (D)	Cabinet Member for Education Complicit in the cover up of councillor Craske’s lies and abuse of electors.
Richard Gillespie	Longlands		£9,417.16	Stood down for the May 2014 elections.
Steven Hall	East Wickham		£9,417.16 £2,133 (M)	Chairman: Audit Committee
James Hunt	East Wickham		£9,417.16 £8,802 (E)	Chairman: Children’s Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee
David Hurt	Barnehurst		£9,417.96 £250 (N)
Eleanor Hurt	Lesnes Abbey		£9,417.96	Smallest majority in the borough. Six votes. Stood down for the May 2014 elections.
Brenda Langstead	North End		£9,417.96 £2,661 (F)	Opposition spokesman: Crime and Disorder Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Geraldene Lucia-Hennis	Crayford		£9,417.96 £4,510 (K) £4,956 (P)	Deputy Mayor: 2013-2014 Chairman: General Purposes Committee Offender against the councillors’ code of conduct. Twice censured and made to attend training courses. Excuses her aggressive tendencies by claiming she is not a councillor when not on council business. Idiot or what?
Gill MacDonald	Belvedere		£9,417.96 £2,661 (F)	Opposition spokesman: Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Munir Malik	Thamesmead East		£9,417.96 £2,661 (F)	Opposition spokesman: Finance Overview and Scrutiny Committee Stood down for the May 2014 elections.
Howard Marriner	Barnehurst		£9,417.96
Don Massey	Cray Meadows		£9417.96 £13,197 (D)	Cabinet Member for Community Safety and Leisure Chaired the meeting that decided to ignore the signatures of 2,219 Bexley residents who had expressed concern that the salaries paid to senior Bexley council executives are excessive.
Sharon Massey	Danson Park		£9,417.96 £14,754 (O)	Mayor: 2013-2014
Seán Newman	Belvedere		£9,417.96 £2,661 (F)	Opposition spokesman: Public Realm, Community Safety, Economic Development and Regeneration Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Caroline Newton	St. Michael’s		£9,417.96
Nick O’Hare	Blendon & Penhill		£9,417.96 £250 (N)	Complicit in the cover up of councillor Craske’s abuse of electors.
Margaret O’Neill	Erith		£9,417.96 £1,068 (I)	Opposition spokesman: Planning Committee Stood down for the May 2014 elections.
Teresa O’Neill Leader	Brampton		£9,417.96 £26,391 (A)	Leader of the Council Adviser to the London Mayor, Boris Johnson on matters concerning the Outer London boroughs. Not a firm believer in the council’s slogan “Listening to you, working for you” (she fails to turn up at scheduled meetings with the public) and keen advocate of high allowances for councillors and salaries exceeding the Prime Minister’s for her favoured fat cats. After the former leader, the disgraced Ian Clement, abused his expense account and council credit card, various Freedom of Information requests indicated a massive cover-up including an email giving instructions on how to hide things from the auditors. Teresa O’Neill refused all requests by those pursuing the truth to meet them or otherwise respond to their enquiries. Reported this blog to Bexley police and provided a totally false story to justify it. Bexley police responded and as a result fell foul of an IPCC investigation. No police officer was disciplined and no one was charged with Misconduct in Public Office. Deliberately ignored the Data Protection Act 1998 by authorising the publication of personal information of residents she didn’t like on the council’s website. Dishonest at every level.
Eileen Pallen	Crayford		£9,417.96 £8,802 (E)	Chairman: Adults’ Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Katie Perrior	Blackfen & Lamorbey		£9,417.96 £13,197 (D)	Cabinet Member for Children’s Services Pleads poverty to a local paper claiming she works part time when in fact she is full time director of the prominent PR company ‘Inhouse’. Stood down for the May 2014 elections.
Harry Persaud	Thamesmead East		£9,417.96
Joseph Pollard	St. Michael’s		£9,417.96
Philip Read	Northumberland Heath		£9417.96 £8,802 (E)	Chairman: Finance and Corporate Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee Falsely accused a local blogger resulting in the blogger spending 24 hours in a police cell.
Peter Reader	Northumberland Heath		£9,417.96 £8,802 (G)	Chairman: Planning Committee
Ray Sams	St. Michael’s		£9,417.96	Mayor: 2011-2012 Defeated in the May 2014 election.
Alex Sawyer	Northumberland Heath		£9,417.96 £4,907.11 (N)	Married to Conservative MP for Witham, Essex, Ms. Priti Patel. Ms. Patel employs Bexley Conservative ex-councillor David Leaf as her research assistant.
Melvin Seymour	Crayford		£9,417.96 £8,802 (E)	Chairman: Environment and Leisure Scrutiny Committee Reported blogger to the police for harassing councillors. Charges subsequently dropped because there was no evidence that would stand examination. Reported a blogger for Tweeting comments but exaggerated them very considerably. Blogger found guilty because of that gross exaggeration of the documentary evidence. These exaggerations were repeated from the witness box at a successful appeal hearing. No action taken on perjury.
June Slaughter	Sidcup		£9,417.96
Michael Slaughter	Longlands		£9,417.96	Stood down for the May 2014 elections.
Brad Smith	Christchurch		£9,417.96 £8,802 (J)	Chairman: Licensing Committee
James Spencer	Christchurch		£9,417.96
Colin Tandy	St. Mary’s		£9,417.96
Michael Tarrant	East Wickham		£9,417.96	Thinks it is sensible to prosecute residents who have their rubbish stolen by persons unknown and dumped elsewhere. Writes to local newspapers to support Bexley council but does not disclose his interest. Stood down for the May 2014 elections.
Chris Taylor	Colyers		£9,417.96 £13,197 (D)	Cabinet Member for Adults’ Services Claims to be proud of the fact that Bexley’s domiciliary care workers are paid only one penny above the minimum wage and are not paid at all for the time taken to get from one client’s home to another. Defeated in the May 2014 election.
John Waters	Danson Park		£9,417.96 £2,383 (L) £33.50 (Q)	Chairman: Pensions Committee
John Wilkinson	Brampton		£9,417.96
Simon Windle	Barnehurst		£9,417.96	Stood down for the May 2014 elections.

Six married couples are linked by coloured backgrounds