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.
18 June (Part 1) - It’s déjà vu all over again
It’s
not only the question of parking charges
that come up every four years, there’s the question of the total paid out in councillors’ allowances too.
Four years ago councillor leader Teresa O’Neill began to tease us with the
prospect of reducing the number of councillors from 63 to 42 thereby saving
nearly a million pounds over an elected term. Naturally she did sweet FA about it.
Then this year the Conservatives made the same tired old promise to work towards
a reduction in their election leaflets. I suppose some suckers fell for it and
the Tories got a few more votes.
The chances of anything coming of that empty promise are slim, if that word can be used in connection with our dear leader. In fact
only three months ago she
got pretty close to saying so herself. The most relevant bit begins at 1m:29s.
It would, the leader says, be disingenuous to expect savings to come from a reduction in the number of councillors.
Well not if she had done what was expected four years ago it wouldn’t.
It’ll be the same old story in another four years. Voting unanimously for
two
paid Vice-Chairmen per scrutiny committee proves the
Tories’ addiction to troughing.