28 August (Part 1) - Lying. It’s just not worth it
Can you imagine the mess I would get myself into if I deliberately strayed from the truth or lied on Bonkers? This is the 1,827th blog entry and if I proposed to write one which was untruthful it would take a week to check back to be sure I was not contradicting a previous lie. There are more than 500 feature pages too. The only practical policy is to never report anything that isn’t true or even exaggerate.
It
must be very different over at the Civic Centre where their correspondence is
so often riddled with lies, all written by different people who cannot be fully
aware of what else may have been said on the same matter. Lynn Tyler who wrote
the letter excusing councillor Cheryl Bacon
from any malpractice when she put her
Public Realm meeting into Closed Session
is a case in point.
She wrote that everyone at that meeting was misbehaving which is totally untrue.
All councillors present must know that but presumably one or more have told Mrs. Tyler
otherwise. I was excluded from the reconvened meeting because “members of the public continued
to shout” which is a total lie. I said nothing at all because I never do, and although I was half
expecting some of the others present to have their say, they did no more than mutter among themselves.
Apparently Cheryl Bacon addressed us all personally, approached us no less, to ask that we desist
from calling out. I’d like to think Cheryl Bacon didn’t say that and it is a council manufactured lie
but coming from the Legal Department one might expect theirs to be a straight forward and above board report.
Not that I'd be confident of it. Either way it makes no real difference, Cheryl Bacon must have approved
it which is just as bad. Has
councillor Peter Craske got a rival?
There is no way that Cheryl Bacon approached anyone or asked them to stop
calling out, for a start the situation caused her to almost lose her voice, but Lynn Tyler’s letter goes beyond accusing everyone present of misbehaviour;
essential if the exclusion of all of them is to be lawfully justified, she
has decided that councillor Bacon’s behaviour was absolutely perfect.
After describing councillor Bacon’s handling of the meeting Lynn Tyler reaches her conclusion…
One must wonder why it is that if councillor Cheryl Bacon was such a perfect
chairman that the Director of Corporate Services, Paul Moore (†), found it necessary to
remind her of the correct procedure. Maybe Lynn Tyler had forgotten that and
the not unimportant fact that Mr. Moore correctly referred to “one individual”
causing “some disruption”. At the time, Mr. Moore had no reason to lie and
wished only to ensure that correct procedures would be followed in future. He did not approve the general
exclusion of the public as did Cheryl Bacon by announcing a ‘Closed Session’.
Now that the council has realised that Bacon’s exclusion of everyone, me included, was an illegal
act, Lynn Tyler must have been deceived into extricating Bacon and the council out of a tight spot.
If only she had trawled back through all the correspondence she might have realised that the
chosen lie is holed below the waterline by the Director of Corporate Services.
† I have no documentary evidence that Paul Moore issued
that note as my leaked version cut the signature, but the responsibility would
be his.