Bexley councillors - Ward Sequence

2014 - 2015

Cllr.	Ward	Party	Pay	Appointments
David Hurt	Barnehurst		£9,418
Howard Marriner	Barnehurst		£9,418 £14,754 (O)	Mayor
Eileen Pallen	Barnehurst		£9,418 £13,197 (D)	Cabinet Member for Adults’ Services
Daniel Francis	Belvedere		£9,418
Gill MacDonald	Belvedere		£9,418
Seán Newman	Belvedere		£9,418
Brian Beckwith	Blackfen & Lamorbey		£9,418
Peter Craske	Blackfen & Lamorbey		£9,418 £1,000 (L)	Chairman: General Purposes Committee 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”.
Lynn Smith	Blackfen & Lamorbey		£9,418
Graham D’Amiral	Blendon & Penhill		£9,418	Vice-Chairman: General Purposes Committee Vice-Chairman: Members’ Code of Conduct Committee
Steven Hall	Blendon & Penhill		£9,418 £8,802 (E)	Chairman: Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Nick O’Hare	Blendon & Penhill		£9,418 £3,000 (F)	Vice-Chairman: Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Sybil Camsey	Brampton		£9,418 £3,000 (F)	Vice-Chairman: People Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Teresa O’Neill Leader	Brampton		£9,418 £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.
John Wilkinson	Brampton		£9,418
Roy Ashmole	Christchurch		£9,418
John Fuller	Christchurch		£9,418 £13,197 (D)	Cabinet Member for Education
Brad Smith	Christchurch		£9,418 £8,802 (K)	Chairman: Licensing Committee
Brian Bishop	Colyers		£9,418
Maxine Fothergill	Colyers		£9,418 £3,000	Vice-Chairman: Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Colin McGannon	Colyers		£9,418
Cheryl Bacon	Cray Meadows		£9,418 £3,000 (F)	Chairman: Members’ Code of Conduct Committee Vice-Chairman: Places Overview and Scrutiny Committee Proven industrial scale liar. Exactly the right qualification for Chairman of the Members’ Code of Conduct Committee.
Ross Downing	Cray Meadows		£9,418	Deputy Mayor
Don Massey	Cray Meadows		£9,418 £13,197 (D)	Cabinet Member for the Environment and Public Realm 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.
Christine Bishop	Crayford		£9,418
John Davey	Crayford		£9,418	Vice-Chairman: Licensing Committee 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.
Geraldene Lucia-Hennis	Crayford		£9,418	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?
Linda Bailey	Danson Park		£9,418 £13,197 (D)	Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Growth Struck a member of the public outside the council chamber. Explained it by saying “I can do what I like”.
Sharon Massey	Danson Park		£9,418	Mayor: 2013-2014
John Waters	Danson Park		£9,418 £2,133 (M)	Chairman: Pensions Committee
Christine Catterall	East Wickham		£9,418
James Hunt	East Wickham		£9,418 £8,802 (E)	Chairman: People Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Cafer Munur	East Wickham		£9,418	Vice-Chairman: Audit Committee
Edward Boateng	Erith		£9,418
Joe Ferreira	Erith		£9,418
Abena Oppong-Asare	Erith		£9,418
Nigel Betts	Falconwood & Welling		£9,418 £3,000 (F)	Vice-Chairman: Places Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Val Clark	Falconwood & Welling		£9,418 £2,661 (I)	Vice-Chairman: Planning Committee Mayor: 2010-2011 (Self appointed God’s gift to chairmanship).
Louie French	Falconwood & Welling		£9,418	Vice-Chairman: Pensions Committee
Esther Amaning	Lesnes Abbey		£9,418
Danny Hackett	Lesnes Abbey		£9,418
John Husband	Lesnes Abbey		£9,418
Gareth Bacon	Longlands		£9,418 £17,595 (B)	Deputy Leader of the council Vice-Chairman: Constitutional Review Committee Vice-Chairman: Top Management Review Panel If you thought that £45,000 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.
Andy Dourmoush	Longlands		£9,418	Vice-Chairman: Appeals Committee
David Leaf	Longlands		£9,418
Stefano Borella	North End		£9,418	Prospective Labour Party General Election Candidate for Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency
Alan Deadman	North End		£9,418 £13,197 (C)	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.
Brenda Langstead	North End		£9,418
Philip Read	Northumberland Heath		£9,418 £13,197 (D)	Cabinet Member for Children’s Services Falsely accused a local blogger resulting in the blogger spending 24 hours in a police cell.
Peter Reader	Northumberland Heath		£9,418 £8,802 (G)	Chairman: Planning Committee Chairman: Staff Consultative Committee
Melvin Seymour	Northumberland Heath		£9,418 £8,802 (E)	Chairman: Places Overview and Scrutiny Committee Reported a blogger for comments made on Twitter 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.
Aileen Beckwith	Sidcup		£9,418
Rob Leitch	Sidcup		£9,418	Vice-chairman: Staff Consultative Committee
June Slaughter	Sidcup		£9,418
Alan Downing	St. Mary’s		£9,418 £3,000 (F)	Vice-Chairman: People 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. Mayor: 2012-2013.
Alex Sawyer	St. Mary’s		£9,418 £13,197 (D)	Cabinet Member for Community Safety and Leisure Married to Conservative MP for Witham, Essex, Ms. Priti Patel. Ms. Patel employs Bexley Conservative councillor David Leaf as her research assistant.
Colin Tandy	St. Mary’s		£9,418
Chris Beazley	St. Michael’s		£9,418	Leader of UKIP in Bexley
Caroline Newton	St. Michael’s		£9,418
Joseph Pollard	St. Michael’s		£9,418 £2,133 (N)	Chairman: Audit Committee
Derry Begho	Thamesmead East		£9,418
Endy Ezenwata	Thamesmead East		£9,418
Mabel Ogundayo	Thamesmead East		£9,418

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