Bexley is a London borough bordering the county of Kent. Like most London boroughs
it has its good bits and its bad bits. The banner image above is from the northern
end of town; the place where the council permits, and is too often forced to permit,
warehouses, industrial sites, sewage works and rubbish incinerators. It may look
quite nice to a town-dweller but it can smell very bad.
Bexley claims to be a good council that wins awards but it is good mainly at job
creation and lining councillors’ pockets; it does not serve its residents well.
Over the past 20 years it has risen from being almost the lowest taxing
authority in London, beaten by neighbouring Bromley, to the very highest echelons of that
league table. Past Labour administrations have boasted of the need to spend, spend,
spend whilst Conservative ones have paid only lip-service to economies whilst
indulging in wasteful extravagances and awarding themselves as much in tax-free
expenses as the average man receives in wages.
Officials, ten of whom earn in the region of £200,000 a year (with a further 16 on
£75k and 44 on £65k), indulge in ego boosting schemes designed to enhance their job security and
generally degrade the quality of life of residents and will happily ignore the law when
it suits them. In the words of a local newspaper; Bexley council has been “taken
over by a mob of nasty, evil people who seem to thrive on other people’s pain and hurt”.
Some of the councillors thrive on an agenda of pain and hurt and are on record
here for selecting individual residents who have crossed them for individual
vindictive attention costing them hundreds of pounds; all to satisfy councillors’
wicked egos. They defy government guidance and publish documents in direct
contravention of that guidance. Officials falsify surveys and present them to gullible councillors
for approval. They deliberately flout the law to maximise motoring fines, repeatedly
threaten residents who pay their taxes a single day late after a bank holiday with prosecution
and regard the mentally afflicted as people to be punished for being difficult. It all
happens in Bonkers Bexley, surely the most incompetent and
corrupt authority in London.
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