April 2017

What the hell else have they got to offer people?

April 30, 2017 // 1 Comment

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 prescription rate within Kent. The average in Kent is one prescription rate per head of population. Shepway’s is 1.06. Thanet [Click to Read More]

£7.5 million Worth Of Duplicate Payments Made by KCC.

April 28, 2017 // 1 Comment

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 publishing of credit notes mandatory for all Councils since 2011. So that means for the last six years not a single officer or [Click to Read More]

Dodgy Dave At It Again? I’ll Leave You To Decide That.

April 26, 2017 // 5 Comments

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 influential business leader in Kent in March 2016. Mr Miles also sits on 12 companies as a director. One of the companies he is a [Click to Read More]

Shepway District Council’s Empty Homes Scandal.

April 23, 2017 // 4 Comments

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 “People have to live somewhere“. Jean and Gillian (pictured) were adamant that we need homes, and I for one cannot [Click to Read More]

When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do?

April 21, 2017 // 1 Comment

“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 now become what we know about the Otterpool Park. Cllr David Drury Monk our four time failed ex double glazing salesman has [Click to Read More]

KCC Councillors Paid £6.5 million For Nothing?

April 20, 2017 // 1 Comment

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 councillors (3 UKIP and 2 Conservative & 1 Green) have been paid a total of £350,900 (see above). That’s an average [Click to Read More]

Voting Tory In the KCC Elections, Will Harm Your Children.

April 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

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 poverty, when previously it was one in five. 45% of Children in Folkestone Harvey Central Ward now called Folkestone Central [Click to Read More]

KCC’s Gifts & Hospitality Policy Corruption Charter?

April 16, 2017 // 1 Comment

In 2013 the well respected anti-corruption charity Transparency International produced a report called Corruption in UK Local Government: The Mounting Risks. The report identifies a number of areas of local government activity where the risk of fraud and corruption was high, such as, outsourcing [Click to Read More]

Policy No 4 – Part 1: Education

April 13, 2017 // 2 Comments

Vote Rylands Folkestone West Division May 4th 2017 Six of the eight educational establishments in the Folkestone West Division will lose £2.2 million pounds due to the cuts to be implemented to these schools by 2019. This is equal to the lose of 63 teachers across the [Click to Read More]

Policy No 3 – Part 2 Transparency & Accountability. Fat Cat Pay of KCC Senior Directors.

April 11, 2017 // 2 Comments

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 elected to KCC in May I will be arguing for an open and transparent review of top officers pay with the aim of a substantial [Click to Read More]

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