8 May - A damp squib and a big bang
After so much anticipation the election result was something of a damp squib.
Numerically the Conservatives are almost unchanged and the opposition has been
divided. You can be sure that the Conservatives will turn that to their
advantage and probably find some way of crippling opposition representation
on Committees. Never ever trust a Bexley Tory.
Down in Slade Green Stefano Borella is keeping us all on Tenterhooks; there is
obviously recounting going on, several of them. Come on Stef; you can do it but
I hope the Reform UK people are fully aware of how voting papers can be
mysteriously spirited away. I saw it in 2014. {Labour has beaten the Reform
candidate by just one vote.]
Earlier today I gave a friend a lift to the doctor’s surgery, which seem like an
easy favour to do as she has a Blue Badge. Although I could have parked on a
yellow line I chose not to and found somewhere with no lines at all.
Nevertheless I displayed the badge.
When I returned I had been given a PCN. The CEO who was still there said that
not every parking spot allowed Blue Badge parking.
This is going to cost Bexley Council an absolute fortune. I have never been one for
submitting FOIs willy nilly because of the cost but that is now changed. From now
on I shall delight in making FOIs as often as possible.
Thanks to @tonyofsidcup who took Bexley Council to court, we now know that
publishing FOIs on Bonkers is a public service.
This one will do for starters…
Today I parked my car where there were no yellow lines but nevertheless used the Blue Badge belonging to my disabled
passenger. I was issued with a PCN. A CEO told me that there are parking spaces where
a Blue Badge is not valid.
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act please provide a list of
every location in Bexley, both streets and car parks, where parking is
restricted but Blue Badges provide no exemption. For every location please
provide the relevant Traffic Order.
I can’t think why but I have lost my enthusiasm for recycling too.
Cans washed, labels stripped off, lids removed from glass containers, toilet
roll ‘spindles’ saved, plastic bottles separated from their tops and
plastic labels. Decorative paper subjected to the crumple test.
Forget it. I will not be doing any of that any more.
Re-sorting the neighbour’s contaminated bins, going the extra mile for Bexley
Council? No bloody way. Never again. Bexley Council is your enemy.