4 July (Part 1) - The rat runs
Bexley
council took a photo of this man and his placard and
passed it to the police
with an instruction that their friends in the Met put the frighteners on him. No
legal basis for it (confirmed by reply to Freedom of Information request) but that is the “I
can do what I like” Bexley council for you. Yesterday the tables were
partially turned. The not easily frightened Martin Peaple was at the Danson Park
Festival and spotted a council stall inviting residents to ask a question
and get an answer within five days - and who should be manning it but the man in
charge of the cameras that took Martin’s picture and presumably the man who
cocked a snook at the Data Protection Act by not using his cameras in the
designated manner. Councillor Craske no less, the man given to lying (for example,
it
costs more to answer FOIs than we collect in parking fines) at public
meetings. Who better to man a council stall? No good asking leader Teresa
O’Neill to do it, she has a track record for
failing to show at such events.
Having spotted his glowing visage Martin knew exactly what questions had to be
asked, “Who took my photo and who decided to send it to the police?”. In Martin’s
words, “Craske is one rude bloke” who claimed he “hasn’t got a clue”. Can you
believe that? The cabinet member in charge of parking enforcement sees his department
splashed across the front page of the News Shopper, and if he wasn’t behind
it he wasn’t sufficiently interested to ask what was going on? Looks like Craske
is up to his usual tricks or it’s yet more proof he is unfit to be a cabinet member.
Martin also asked why the public can’t film or photograph public meetings. At that point Craske
noticed that Martin was recording his questions on a mobile phone and promptly ran away.
Priceless. Craske gets his cameras to film residents going about their lawful business and
pokes his lenses into people’s bedrooms
but ask him a question about it and he knows nothing and scarpers.
Martin reports that another councillor who he believes (having looked at
their mugshots)
was Peter Reader was present who was much more helpful and said he would do his utmost
to get an answer to his first question within five days. We await the answer with the
utmost interest. Will we learn anything of why Bexley council thinks it is above
the law, usually there is no answer? Nigel Wise, who forced Richmond council to obey the
law, is still waiting for a proper answer to the
question he posed on 5th May.
The above information has been provided by Notomob - Martin is an active member - and continuing
the theme of sponging off the efforts of others may I recommend you take a look at
Arthur Pewty’s maggot sandwich which this week gives news of developments in Erith.
The infamous Cross Keys pub, the new Pound Shop and Bexley council’s early foray into the
world of computers - though they failed to exploit them beyond use as glorified typewriters.
Look out for Notomob in Bexley next Saturday.