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 [...]