What the hell else have they got to offer people?
In the fortnight after Prince Harry announced that he had suffered from mental health problems it’s emerged that Shepway has an above the average anti-depressant [...]
April 2017
£7.5 million Worth Of Duplicate Payments Made by KCC.
For the last six years Kent County Council have not published credit notes in their published Invoices over £250. The Local Government Transparency Code has made the [...]
Dodgy Dave At It Again? I’ll Leave You To Decide That.
Geoff Miles (pictured) – co-owner Maidstone TV Studio & Chair of the Kent & Medway Economic Partnership, was according to the KM Kent Business the fourth most [...]
Shepway District Council’s Empty Homes Scandal.
Yesterday over 500 people gathered in Hythe to demonstrate against the concreting over of Shepway. Yet what stood out to me were two ladies, with placards telling us [...]
When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do?
“When the facts change, I change my mind” said John Maynard Keynes. Well the facts have changed. What we thought we knew about the Otterpool Park development has [...]
KCC Councillors Paid £6.5 million For Nothing?
In the 4 years since the last KCC election our 84 county councillors have been paid the astronomic total of £6,632 million in expenses and allowances. In Shepway our 6 KCC [...]
Voting Tory In the KCC Elections, Will Harm Your Children.
Since 2013, child deprivation has increased year on year across all wards in Shepway. Once housing costs are taken into account, nearly one in three children live in [...]
KCC’s Gifts & Hospitality Policy Corruption Charter?
In 2013 the well respected anti-corruption charity Transparency International produced a report called Corruption in UK Local Government: The Mounting Risks. The report [...]
Policy No 4 – Part 1: Education
Vote Rylands Folkestone West Division May 4th 2017 Six of the eight educational establishments in the Folkestone West Division will lose £2.2 [...]
Policy No 3 – Part 2 Transparency & Accountability. Fat Cat Pay of KCC Senior Directors.
Whilst Shepway residents face an inflation busting council tax increase of 3.99%, it has emerged today that the fat cats at Kent County Council are becoming fatter. If [...]
Policy 3: Transparency & Accountability
Transparency & Accountability are all too often lacking in national, county and local politics. Just ask those who are trying to discover what is going on [...]
Policy 2: Health & Social Care & Three Possible Solutions.
The abiding problem of Kent County Council is that nobody wants to pay for it. When council tax or business rates go up we get sensational headlines and outrage inevitably [...]
My Kent County Council Election Manifesto
My Background I’m a single man, who for many years worked overseas, in Europe, Africa & Central Asia. Since my return I have done a stint a Silver Spring before [...]
Policy 1 – Part 2: More Debt & Some Solutions.
There are two catergories of debt, one is on book debt , this the £1 Billion we can see on KCC accounts. The second type debt is off the book debt, such as PFI. All KCC debt [...]
Policy No 1: Tackling the KCC Billion Pound Debt.
I Bryan Rylands (pictured centre) have been given the opportunity by the Shepwayvox Team to use their blog as a forum to promote my policies as an Independent Candidate [...]
A Runner & Rider in the KCC Elections, May 4th 2017
EXCLUSIVE We at the Shepwayvox team are proud to announce that our public face, Bryan Anthony Rylands (pictured below, centre) is standing as a Independent Candidate in the [...]