Apparently, they forgot!

After its week-long flirtation with imposture and pornography, the BBI's official blog is slithering back to what passes for normal.
Under the headline "Lest we forget" it claims: "BBI is having a huge effect on Boston Borough Council for the benefit of the people we serve.
The list of nine "achievements includes the claims that:
"The ‘world’ now knows that the prime wish of the people of Boston is for a bypass or distributor road. That is the essential first step to achieving one. That is the only firm promise BBI ever made on this subject. We have achieved this in full measure."
"We have stabilised BBC finances."
"BBI has changed the culture of Boston Borough Council; a very difficult job to do. In particular it is now an open and transparent organisation."
"We have re-invigorated democracy in Boston as shown by the significant increase in the number of candidates and turnout of the electorate at the 2007 elections."
We assume that the Bostoninnies must believe this tosh because they wrote it.
However, we seem to recall something rather more impressive in respect of a bypass that the mere promise than to tell "the world" that Boston wants one.
Finances stabilised? The Boston exchequer is scraping along the bottom. Refusal to make even the smallest increase in council tax simply for the purpose of showing off has made matters worse.
Open and transparent? More council decisions are discussed and voted on in secrecy than ever before. The cabinet system has been seriously abused so that the council is now effectively run by just eight people with the rump of the BBI being cowed into going along with their decisions. Opposition is crushed by the BBI majority iif it isn't merely ignored.
More candidates? Well, wouldn't you want to try to get the BBI out if you could?
Rewind to May 2007, and the Bostoninnies other blog.
Prominent on the list of "What we stand for" is the promise of a "full investigation of the affairs of the Princess Royal Sports Arena."
In the light of the walk-out debacle for the BBI last week, perhaps someone could tell us when this full investigation occurred, and also point us in the direction of the "open and transparent" area where we might read all about it.
One final point:
"Lest We Forget" is a phrase popularised in 1897 by Rudyard Kipling, and formed the refrain of his poem "Recessional." It is used as the final line to "The Ode of Remembrance," taken from Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen", and is recited at Remembrance Day services throughout the British Commonwealth. That the Boston Bypass Independents hijack the phrase to self-aggrandize their puny achievements places them beneath contempt.

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