Bexley councillors - Surname Sequence

Not long ago the council’s own website used to advertise for new councillors with a slogan about being able to earn £9,000 a year for just two hours a week, anything else is up to you. £180 for a two hour week doing pretty much nothing has attracted a motley crew with a strong affinity with money. Many of them have managed to place themselves in council funded or council sponsored positions which attract extra income. The letter suffixes below relate to the extra responsibilities allowance which boost many councillor’s incomes to more than £20,000…

(A) Leader of the Council (B) Deputy Leader (C) Leader of the Opposition (D) Cabinet Member (E) Committee Chairman (F) Committee Opposition Spokesman (G) Planning Committee Chairman (H) Planning Committee Vice-Chairman (I) Planning Committee Opposition Spokesman (J) Licensing Committee Chairman (K) General Purposes Committee Chairman (L) Pensions Committee Chairman (M) Audit Committee Chairman

Married couples are linked by coloured backgrounds.

Councillor	Ward	Party	Drain on taxpayers 2010/11	Personal details and misdeeds
Kerry Allon	Belvedere		£9,418	Campaigned against the new ASDA store in Belvedere.
Roy Ashmole	Christchurch		£9,418
Cheryl Bacon	Cray Meadows		£9,418 £8,802 (E)
Gareth Bacon	Longlands		£9,418 £13,197 (D)	If you thought that £40,000 a year from Bexley council was quite sufficient for the Bacon family, think again. Gareth is also a Greater London Authority Assembly member for which he was paid £53,439 last year. On top of that he claims a travel card at taxpayers’ expense worth another two grand. Nice work if you can get it eh? Close to £100,000 a year for a few hours a week, which is all he can comfortably fit in given that he holds a full time job as a financial recruitment consultant; he has certainly given himself good advice. It may not be illegal but to fleece the public purse of £100k. a year is some going; do you think that he is on the council for the benefit of the public or to put his snout in the trough? Bacon by name, piggies by nature. Despite all that his management skills may make him better value for money than any of his colleagues.
Linda Bailey	Danson Park		£9,418 £13,197 (D)	Struck a member of the public outside the council chamber. Explained it by saying “I can do what I like”.
Chris Ball Leader of Opposition	Erith		£9,418 £13,197 (C)	Former leader of the council under whom local taxes rose 40%, contributing towards Bexley’s council tax rate being in 9th position on the list of London’s highest taxing councils.
Sandra Bauer Deputy Leader of Opposition	Thamesmead East		£9,418 £2,661 (F)	Made a statement to the police in the hope that a blogger critical of Bexley council would get a criminal record. Her accusations failed to stand up in court.
Aileen Beckwith	Sidcup		£9,418
Brian Beckwith	Blackfen & Lamorbey		£9,418
Nigel Betts	Falconwood & Welling		£9,418	Connived with council deputy leader Campbell in his campaign to stop residents using the Freedom of Information Act to expose council dishonesty, incompetence and wastefulness.
Brian Bishop	Colyers		£9,418
Edward Boateng	Erith		£9,418
Stefano Borella	North End		£9,418 £2,661 (F)
Pat Cammish	Blendon & Penhill		£9,418
Colin Campbell Deputy Leader	St. Mary’s		£9,418 £17,595 (B)	The councillor so concerned that the dirty secrets the council attempts to protect might leak out through Freedom of Information (F.O.I.) requests that he proposed that those making such requests should have their details posted on the council’s website as a deterrent contrary to the Data Protection Act 1998. When faced with a police investigation into his department, involving paedophilia, allegations of drug importing and the theft of six figure sums of money, Campbell restored the accused manager to his job while on bail, approved the sacking of a whistleblower and then upheld the sacking at the appeal hearing he chaired. Is it any wonder he wishes to suppress F.O.I. requests with a track record like that?
Sybil Camsey	Brampton		£9,418
Peter Catterall	Falconwood & Welling		£9,418	In November 2010, suggested that severe traffic problems in Erith might be alleviated by removing an idiotic roundabout rather than by installing more impediments to progress. Could it be true that there is a lone advocate of common sense within this talentless council?
Val Clark	Falconwood & Welling		£9,418 £2,661 (H)	Former mayor - 2010/2011; and God’s gift to chairmanship.
Peter Craske	Blackfen & Lamorbey		£9,418	Indirectly responsible for this site existing having reigned over a network of lies, deceit and incompetence in connection with a road redesign that adversely affects me daily. According to a local newspaper he personally intervened to ensure that a local resident who had offended him was put to an unnecessary extra expense of £550. Imposed a near tripling of residents’ parking charges while refusing all requests to justify the increase with detailed figures. Famously, his home telephone line was the source of on-line obscenities posted to the web but he denied he was responsible for them. Bexley police, the council’s Chief Executive and the Crown Prosecution Service met to “resolve his situation”.
Graham D’Amiral	Blendon & Penhill		£9,418
John Davey	Lesnes Abbey		£9,418	The man who named this website by telling me that council road planning was “completely bonkers” but don’t run away with the conclusion he is an honest man. Duplicity is his name; he thinks the planning is bonkers but was vice-chairman of the Road Planning Scrutiny sub-Committee at the time; a committee which seems to have strangely disappeared since. He also walks away when shown evidence of council malpractice and dishonesty. He has no great need to fleece the tax-payer with inflated expense claims as he has a similar sinecure with the health authority. No sense of right or wrong. Has politicised the Arts Council website by slipping in links to the Conservative Party on it and wrote to a local newspaper to say he was proud of what he had done.
Alan Deadman	North End		£9,418 £2,661 (F)	Thorn in Bexley’s Conservative side, quick to see through their dishonesty.
Alan Downing	St. Mary’s		£9,418 £8,802 (E)	Mayor 2012-2013. Abused a deaf member of the public who asked for the microphones (and hence the hearing loop) to be switched on at a council meeting.
Ross Downing	Cray Meadows		£9,418 £8,802 (E)
Jackie Evans	Sidcup		£9,418
Maxine Fothergill	Colyers		£9,418
John Fuller	Lesnes Abbey		£9,418 £13,197 (D)	Complicit in the cover up of councillor Craske’s lies and abuse of electors.
Richard Gillespie	Longlands		£9,418
Steven Hall	East Wickham		£9,418 £2,133 (M)
James Hunt	East Wickham		£9,418 £8,802 (E)
David Hurt	Barnehurst		£9,418
Eleanor Hurt	Lesnes Abbey		£9,418	Smallest majority in the borough. Six votes.
Brenda Langstead	North End		£9,418 £2,661 (F)
Geraldene Lucia-Hennis	Crayford		£9,418 £4,260 (K)	Offender against the councillors’ code of conduct. Twice censured and made to attend training courses. Excuses her aggressive tendencies by claiming she is not a councillor when not on council business. Idiot or what?
Gill MacDonald	Belvedere		£9,418
Munir Malik	Thamesmead East		£9,418 £2,661 (F)
Howard Marriner	Barnehurst		£9,418
Don Massey	Cray Meadows		£9,418 £13,197 (D)	Chaired the meeting that decided to ignore the signatures of 2,219 Bexley residents who had expressed concern that the salaries paid to senior Bexley council executives are excessive.
Sharon Massey	Danson Park		£9,418
Sean Newman	Belvedere		£9,418 £2,661 (F)
Caroline Newton	St. Michael’s		£9,418
Nick O’Hare	Blendon & Penhill		£9,418	Complicit in the cover up of councillor Craske’s abuse of electors.
Margaret O’Neill	Erith		£9,418 £1,068 (I)
Teresa O’Neill Leader	Brampton		£9,418 £26,391 (A)	Leader of the council and adviser to the London Mayor, Boris Johnson on matters concerning the Outer London boroughs. Not a firm believer in the council’s slogan “Listening to you, working for you” (she fails to turn up at scheduled meetings with the public) and keen advocate of high allowances for councillors and salaries exceeding the Prime Minister’s for her favoured fat cats. After the former leader, the disgraced Ian Clement, abused his expense account and council credit card, various Freedom of Information requests indicated a massive cover-up including an email giving instructions on how to hide things from the auditors. Teresa O’Neill refused all requests by those pursuing the truth to meet them or otherwise respond to their enquiries. Reported this blog to Bexley police and provided a totally story report to justify it. Bexley police responded and as a result fell foul of an IPCC investigation. No police officer was disciplined and no one was charged with Misconduct in Public Office. Deliberately ignored the Data Protection Act 1998 by authorising the publication of personal information of residents she didn’t like on the council’s website. Dishonest at every level.
Eileen Pallen	Crayford		£9,418
Katie Perrior	Blackfen & Lamorbey		£9,418 £13,197 (D)	Pleads poverty to a local paper claiming she works part time when in fact she is full time director of the prominent PR company ‘Inhouse’.
Harry Persaud	Thamesmead East		£9,418
Joseph Pollard	St. Michael’s		£9,418
Philip Read	Northumberland Heath		£9,418 £8,802 (E)	Falsely accused a local blogger resulting in the blogger spending 24 hours in a police cell.
Peter Reader	Northumberland Heath		£9,418 £8,802 (G)
Ray Sams	St. Michael’s		£9,418	Former mayor 2011-2012.
Alex Sawyer	Northumberland Heath		£9,418 £8,802 (E)	Married to Conservative MP for Witham, Essex, Ms. Priti Patel. Ms. Patel employs Bexley Conservative ex-councillor David Leaf as her research assistant. Intimately involved in the dishonest scheme to deprive residents of the opportunity to ask questions at council meetings, a corruption of democracy.
Melvin Seymour	Crayford		£9,418 £8,802 (E)	Reported blogger to the police for harassing councillors. Charges subsequently dropped because there was no evidence that would stand examination. Reported a blogger for Tweeting comments but exaggerated them very considerably. Blogger found guilty because of that gross exaggeration of the documentary evidence. These exaggerations were repeated from the witness box at a successful appeal hearing. No action taken on perjury.
June Slaughter	Sidcup		£9,418
Michael Slaughter	Longlands		£9,418 £8,802 (J)
Brad Smith	Christchurch		£9,418
James Spencer	Christchurch		£9,418
Colin Tandy	St. Mary’s		£9,418
Michael Tarrant	East Wickham		£9,418	Thinks it is sensible to prosecute residents who have their rubbish stolen by persons unknown and dumped elsewhere. Writes to local newspapers to support Bexley council but does not disclose his interest.
Chris Taylor	Colyers		£9,418 £13,197 (D)	Claims to be proud of the fact that Bexley’s domiciliary care workers are paid only one penny above the minimum wage and are not paid at all for the time taken to get from one client’s home to another.
John Waters	Danson Park		£9,418 £2,133 (L)
John Wilkinson	Brampton		£9,418
Simon Windle	Barnehurst		£9,418