Keep your nerve!

My suggestion that Mrs June Slaughter is adopted as the official conservative candidate at the next general election has not fallen on deaf ears with quite a few readers agreeing with me. It would be good to have someone who lives and knows the people living in Old Bexley and Sidcup. Let’s hope the local association have the nerve to stand out against the wishes of Central office who may well be planning to heave one of their own on us.

The Budget

Listening to the council ‘debating’ the new Budget and yet another increase in our Council Tax I couldn’t help picking up on two points.  One was when the Leader of the Council suggested their hard work keeping the increase below inflation was why there was no public in the gallery listening to the ‘debate’.   Secondly, the crass way selected individual members, of which there are fifty four in the ruling political party, score points bullying the nine minority members in the Labour group.  Why the Tories can’t simply get on with the job in hand without bullying and bad manners is beyond me.  After all who were they trying impress?   There were only themselves present! And why do the selected few councillors who always talk so eloquently realise it is only the other sixty two councillors who hear  and sometimes listen to what they say.

On the subject of the Budget.  Why is it necessary to uplift allowances, wages and pensions in line with inflation every year when the majority of us haven’t had real wage rises in years? In the real world wage increases come from higher sales and profits. Why can’t our council keep the status quo!

Room 101!

One of Bexley Councils main meeting places is Room 101! So what is the significance you ask.

Room 101 is a place introduced in the novel Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell. He named it after a conference room at BBC Broadcasting House where he used to sit through tedious meetings. “You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you I knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst in the world”. 0’Brien. Just goes to show someone in the council, or working for it, knew what they were doing when they numbered this room!