Hypocrite? You Decide
Damian Collins, MP for Folkestone & Hythe is chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee and we believe a hypocrite. Damian has recently written to the [...]
November 2017
Is This Why Local Newspapers Are Dying Mr Francis?
Local newspapers are dying. The numbers of papers being sold is in decline as more people turn to online media. However, even here, the journalism is all too often replaced [...]
Damian Collins MP Expenses 2016/17
Since May 2010 – to March 31st 2017, Damian Collins, MP for Folkestone & Hythe has cost the public purse £1,144,586 according to IPSA. The average amount he has [...]
£57 Million Pounds of Development Funding Bids Submitted By 7 Kent Councils.
We need housing to be built across the country, that we do not dispute. We need more homes in Kent, but how many and where? Development doesn’t come without its [...]
Parking Machine Theft.
Cllr Malcolm Dearden (pictured) was the former Cabinet member for Transport at Shepway District Council. He is now Cabinet member for Finance. Cllr Dearden was first elected [...]
Cllr Susan Joan Carey
Cllr Susan Carey (pictured) was first elected to Shepway District Council (SDC) in 1999 for the then seat of Saltwood & Newington. She won the seat with 240 votes gaining [...]
Update on Otterpool Park
Warwick Smith in The Guardian sets out that Companies “don’t give their money away for nothing. There is an understanding (rarely made explicit) that large [...]
Are They Worth £9.2 Million?
In Kent – including Medway, there were 715 elected representatives who received expenses and allowances in the financial year 2016/17. Kent has 559 elected [...]
Kent MP Costs For 2016/17
All Kent MP’s have cost the UK Taxpayer the sum of £2,597,410 for the financial year 2016/17. (All information is drawn from IPSA’s website.) This year, [...]
The Grand Inferno
Forgive the classical allusion but Dante might be the name that will be taking up a lot of Michael Stainer’s time over the coming months. But he won’t be studying [...]
Damian Collins In Twitter Spat With Russian Embassy
Folkestone & Hythe MP – Damian Collins (pictured), has got into a spat on Twitter, with the Russian Embassy, in London, about fake news. Damian & his committee [...]
Property & Land Held in Each Kent District by Overseas Companies.
In conjunction with Ian Driver, a blogger from Thanet, we the Shepwayvox Team, bring you a district by district comparison of how many properties (includes land) are held in [...]
The Gateway To The Shepway Addresses Owned Offshore
Earlier Today we promised you all 145 addresses of properties held overseas. The vast majority of them are held in known tax haven jurisdictions. They cover the whole [...]
Shepway Property Owned Offshore.
Yesterday, the Land Registry released all the title deeds of all tax haven/offshore companies which own property in the UK. There are, according to the Land Registry, 98,583 [...]
The Colourful Geoffrey George Boot.
Over the last few days the Paradise Papers have been splashed across the front pages of many newspapers across the world. Once again, they like the Panama Papers have shown [...]
Rough Sleeping Kills.
Terry (not his real name) is a rough sleeper. It was his hand that first drew him to our attention. He was missing two fingers. Frostbite the winter of 2015, he told us. He [...]
Lorry Park Stanford
The rumours that the lorry park at Stanford has been ditched according to “sources close to the Construction Team” – Balfour Beatty has been revealed by [...]
Who is Shelia Diane Jarvis?
First off: the fact that a person living in Shepway or elsewhere in the UK has an account in an offshore jurisdiction is not, in and of itself, evidence of illegal activity. [...]