Shepway care workers paid less than minimum wage.
Peter & Jane (not their real names) are care workers in Shepway who like many, many others across the district who work in the social care industry face many obstacles [...]
November 2016
What’s the Answer?
Council housing in Shepway & across the country facing a serious funding crisis. Government policies since 2010 are responsible for a significant decline in the income [...]
Cheating and bullying at the Grand!
We can’t keep Folkestone’s most iconic iconic buildings out of the news. Why should we? Speaking truth unto power is good, speaking up for the powerless is even better! [...]
Damian Collins MP Expenses 2010/11 – 2015/16
Damian Collins (left) our beloved MP is as you may or may not know the most expensive MP in Kent according to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) [...]
MP’s Expenses Rise 60% Over Six Years.
There isn’t a duck house or a moat cleaning company in sight when you look at our MP’s expenses, which kind of makes you think they might have learnt a thing or [...]
Discrepancies in Shepway DC’s Council Tax Consultation.
SDC have created two documents regarding the Council Tax Reduction Scheme Consultation: They are report-c-16-78 and the ctrs-consultation-responses-analysis When [...]
Otterpool, Offshore’s And a Little Insider Knowledge.
In 2013 the Government’s Planning Inspector denied the redevelopment of Folkestone Racecourse on the grounds that too many homes were proposed. Folkestone Racecourse, [...]
Damian Collins & Other Kent MP Expenses
Between May 2010 and March 2015 Damian Collins MP was Kent’s most expensive MP. Mr Collins cost the taxpayer the grand sum £765,365. An average of £153,073 a year. [...]
Otterpool Park Update
So Otterpool Park gets the go ahead, but did anyone really think it wouldn’t get the nod? We’ve always said the Reuben Brothers (left) never buy a pig in a poke. [...]
Kent CC’s Missing £142 million, a Large Data Breach and a Missing Half a Million.
Kent County Council have now responded to us regarding the missing £142 million. In an email Mr Andy Wood (left) KCC’s finance officer has sent the following to [...]
Cllr Claire Jeffrey Council Tax Summons.
Cllr Claire Jeffrey (Con) (middle) failed to pay her initial Council Tax reminder in 2015/16. Cllr Jeffrey received one Council Tax reminder and received a summons after [...]
Shepway District Council Spend Data Under the Magnifying Glass.
A picture they say, is worth a thousand words, well we have seven pictures/graphs for you. All these graphs are made from Shepway District Council’s payment to [...]
Our Local NHS Is On Its Knees
According to the East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) eastkent_annual_report_and_accounts_2015-16-page-11 The Trust has over 1000 beds including 27 [...]
Missing
How do you lose a £142 million pounds? Down the back of the sofa? At the bookies, a bad investment? We don’t know, but what we do know is that it is missing, gone [...]
We Don’t Know, So We’ll Leave You To Decide
In 2010 the Folkestone Herald reported that the Creative Foundation (CF) had ‘received millions of pounds from the public purse’ – Sir Roger has asked [...]