7 October (Part 1) - Building Back Better
In odd moments the archive of old blogs is being restored, oldest ones first
which is the only away of checking on the veracity of backward looking links.
They are not only being restored but made fully Mobile complaint with new
higher resolution images. It is necessarily a slow job and has so far reached
only mid-2011. They are accessible only from the main menu.
Rereading them illustrates all too well just how dishonest Bexley Council was
back then, a time when they believed no one was watching them and any attempt to
do so was referred to the police - and I don’t mean
just me. John Kerlen and
Martin Peaple were given the Stasi treatment too and the
police were almost
routinely stationed outside the Civic Offices when the Council was due to attack
worried mothers or ethnic minorities or anyone else that might try to deflect the Council from its chosen path.
Among the lies was a Press Release claiming that despite yet another increase in parking fees Bexley still had the
cheapest parking charges in South East London.
The truth was that apart from the tourist’s car park next to the Cutty Sark
Bexley parking was the most expensive car parking in South East London.
Councillor Craske tried to win an argument related to the near tripling of the price of
resident parking permits and claimed there had been a survey about retaining a Controlled Parking Zone in Bexley and that it
supported his view. A Freedom of Information response
confirmed there had been no survey.
How did Bexley Council think it could ever get away with such things? Presumably
because they had for years until Social Media became a thing.