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.

Example of a Craske email to residents about Parking Permits

From: Councillor Craske, Peter [mailto:Peter.Craske@bexley.gov.uk]
Sent: 09 September 2010 14:19
To: *** ******
Subject: RE: Parking Permit charges.

The figures break down as below. The reason I know we run at a loss of £300k is because we have put together a full report establishing all those costs. CPZs are very expensive to set up and maintain and we cannot simply carry on subsiding them in the times we are now in. It is not just CPZs, there are range of things we are applying the same principles. For example, we have said we will no longer use public money to subsidise town centre Christmas lights, so if town centres like Welling or Sidcup or anywhere else want to have lights they must pay for them themselves at the full cost. For too long, rightly or wrongly, we have contributed over 2/3rds of the cost, from which the council itself receives no benefit and we will no longer provide that level of support, in fact no support. Welling traders though have already committed the money to pay for the lights, so some town centres are just getting on with it.


The number of permits issued in 09/10:

3081 permits in total were bought
Business - 25 three-monthly and 168 annual
Resident - 372 three-monthly and 2516 annual

The breakdown of costs is: