The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
16 October (Part 1) - Bexley’s ‘Poor little rich girl’. (£50 compensation and still complaining)
I
never get around to watching TV, one programme a week currently, but fortunately
readers are more on the ball, hence the picture of councillor Katie Perrior on
BBC’s Watchdog on 6th October. I don’t know whether she made a genuine complaint
like a normal viewer or was called in to fill a hole as an ‘industry insider’,
but the story was she had booked a British Airways flight to the USA and decided
to “treat myself to an upgrade” only to find that her inflight entertainment
system didn’t work. Katie’s complaint to BA resulted in £50 compensation but
that wasn’t good enough for her, she complained to Watchdog; or as I suspect
is more likely was bemoaning her luck in a posh wine bar with her media friends
when it was realised that her disappointment with BA would ideally fill out a
programme highlighting several BA failings.
Nothing much wrong with any of that, but what is a struggling Bexley mother, unable
to be a councillor without her £22,615 allowance, who knows what it is like to
be “not rich”, doing flitting off to the States at all, let alone splashing out on an
upgrade to ‘Premium’ as a treat? Presumably it is because her letter to the Bexley Chronicle
last March was an attempt to deceive the electorate. If that is how she thinks a
councillor should behave, she is in good company at Bexley council.
Earlier blogs on Katie Perrior…
• 2 May 2011 - Flak over Flackley
• 22 May 2011 - Hypocrisy or what?
• 4 June 2011 - Taking lessons from Joseph
• 12 August 2011 - One broke the law, the other wants to
• 27 September 2011 - High flyer
For those tempted to watch the programme on BBC i-Player, our Katie comes on at 30:37 into the recording.
Ms. Perrior’s impoverished status taken from her letter to the Bexley Chronicle
available on-line.
May 2011 issue.