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.
22 November (Part 1) - Yellow paint. Love it (Crayford) or loathe it (Sidcup)
If you don’t like paying for your bin to be collected, losing your library,
being spied on while driving or seeing the borough’s historic houses starved of
funds, blame Bexley Conservatives if you like or this government for reducing
grants to local government or the previous one for wrecking the economy. It
doesn’t really matter, the end result is that Bexley council is running out of
money and desperate for more. They don’t care where it comes from as long as it
is not their own allowances. There really was no need to appoint six vice
chairmen to scrutiny committees and then pay them handsomely for sitting around doing
not a lot. Unless greed is the motivation of course.
As always, the motorist is the easy target when a council needs more money,
hence the constant use of yellow paint and
more parking restrictions to trap the unwary.
This week it is Crayford’s turn. Alderman Close, Alfriston Close, Barnock Close,
Bascombe Grove, Carnet Close, Cortland Close, Falstaff Close, Galloway Drive,
Melrose Avenue, Saltcote Close and Woolbrook Road are all to get the treatment.
Yellow lines do nothing to enhance the appearance of a street, so in recently
tarted Sidcup the yellow lines are to be taken away, replaced by a warning sign on
the way in.
So the assumption in Sidcup must always be, you can’t park there unless
somewhere in the street there is a half hidden sign to say you can; and read it
carefully. Bexley council is out to get you. They have to fund
their generous allowances somehow.
Click image to see all of the warning currently available from some Sidcup shops.