11 February - Tough luck Waltham Forest
Only
yesterday I was contrasting how Waltham Forest council deals with
residents with the contempt which Bexley hands down to its own, so I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read
today’s Waltham Forest Guardian and saw that Bexley council leader
Teresa O’Neill is to advise Waltham Forest on subjects including housing, transport and employment.
One reason for continuing with this site is the possibly vain hope that it might
embarrass the council into acting in the interest of residents rather than their
own egos and pockets so it was satisfying to receive a written leak which purports to come
from the council offices saying the top brass check it out each morning.
It is satisfying too that a Google or Yahoo search for “Bexley council” puts Bonkers
right under the council’s paid for entry. I slipped up recently by giving a link
to the Bexley Voluntary Service Council website which promptly overtook Bonkers
on Google thanks probably to that boost. But following a bit of technical jiggery pokery
Bonkers is now back next to the council’s site listing embarrassing those
who unjustly set out to penalise the residents they should be serving.
Yahoo, I note, puts another anti-Bexley council website on its front page. The
Bexley Council Monitoring Group
website developed by John Watson is gradually expanding.