ShepwayVox Dissent is not a Crime

Cost of Living Crisis: Study finds 243 ‘hotspots’ in Kent at greatest risk from rising energy bills

August 27, 2022 // 1 Comment

Residents in Swale, Thanet and Folkestone & Hythe will be hit hardest by spiralling energy prices as the crisis deepens this week, a study has shown. The areas contain [...]

Part 3: KCC Special Education Needs spreading misinformation

August 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

They do make one laugh especially when they provide false information, but hey this is the modern age of misinformation and Kent County Council (KCC) want to be in on the act [...]

And yet more contract irregularities at our Council

August 24, 2022 // 2 Comments

And yet again it happens. Three further contracts have been let which are in clear breach of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Contract Standing Orders (CSOs). [...]

Good News: Kent Pension Fund administered by KCC holds less than 1% of investments in fossil fuel companies

August 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Kent Pension Fund administered by Kent County Council, has over 140,000 members . The Pension Fund has taken giant strides in divesting from fossil fuel companies; which [...]

Cost of Living Crisis: “October frightens the sh*t outta me

August 18, 2022 // 4 Comments

Jane stands silently looking out across the English channel , while above her brooding clouds gather and seagulls head for shelter. Her faced etched with worry and concern, [...]

Why are we waiting?

August 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

It has been seventeen days since the draft accounts of Folkestone & Hythe District Council were meant to open for the residents of the district to inspect. As of this [...]

1,911 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2021.

August 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Hands up who thinks Southern Water are sh*t. That’s unanimous then. In the last ten years Southern Water have been awarded two ratings of good by the Environment [...]

Part 2: Are the Council cooking the books?

August 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

Recently we asked the question: Are Folkestone & Hythe District Council cooking the books? We asked this knowing they do not have the process or procedure within their [...]

Hythe Town Cllrs “couldn’t organize a p*ss up in a brewery”

August 10, 2022 // 4 Comments

“This was totally foreseeable and Hythe Town Cllrs have done nothing to prevent it”, is how one residents sees the recent incursion by Travellers onto the South [...]

Council are acting beyond its powers by giving £16m plus to the two companies it owns

August 8, 2022 // 5 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have acted beyond their powers (ultra vires) by allowing in excess of £16 million to be paid to companies in which they allege they [...]

Do you want £50 quid of your council tax? Here’s how to do it.

August 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

What with a cost of living crisis unfolding before our very eyes; which will get worse in 2023, how would you like a one of £50 reduction on your council tax in the [...]

Council take incompetence to a new level putting lives in serious danager

August 5, 2022 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have taken incompetence to a whole new level. In doing so they’ve placed the lives of women, children and men at significant and [...]

Revealed: More than 500 contracts not on council’s contract register in a blow to transparency

August 4, 2022 // 2 Comments

On the 10 June a whistleblower claimed there was a lack of governance and internal controls within Folkestone & Hythe District Council. They made it clear there was [...]

Are Folkestone & Hythe District Council cooking the books?

August 1, 2022 // 2 Comments

It’s a first, and not one Folkestone & Hythe District Council should be proud of at all. For the first time in the history of our Council, they have failed to [...]

Affinity, Southern & South East Water lose 4 Bewl Water reservoirs to leakage each year

July 31, 2022 // 2 Comments

Water is arguably the most important commodity on Earth. Humans don’t tend to last long without it. Water covers 70% of our planet, and it is easy to think that it will [...]

Council Procurement Card data: Ties for funerals & £157 of bacon & sausage butties and much much more

July 28, 2022 // 1 Comment

Two years worth of the possible eight years worth, of the Council’s procurement card data (CPCD), has been published with “errors”. The data is missing [...]

Council balls up their recently published procurement card data.

July 27, 2022 // 3 Comments

You won’t believe it, but perhaps you will, as this is Folkestone & Hythe District Council we’re talking about after all. The two years worth of procurement [...]

Council release two years worth of procurement card data, just six years left to publish

July 27, 2022 // 2 Comments

Finally after eight years, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have released two years worth of their procurement card data. There is still another six years worth to [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council release map and cashflow model for Phase 1 of project

July 25, 2022 // 6 Comments

Otterpool Park, the controversial development where Folkestone & Hythe District Council, via its company, Otterpool Park LLP, wish to build up to 10,000 homes, across a [...]

More shenanigans at The Grand

July 23, 2022 // 2 Comments

Two wrongs do make a right so they say. Now Michael Stainer is safely ensconced in one of Her Majesty’s Prison’s, as he was found guilty of two counts of cheating [...]

One in three calls go unanswered and Information requests haven’t met targets for last five years

July 21, 2022 // 3 Comments

Yesterday at Cabinet, Cllr Lesley Whybrow (Green) & Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem) both raised the issue around the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the council not [...]

Cllr Monk alone approved David Wimble’s £19,000 High Street Fund application

July 19, 2022 // 7 Comments

On the 22 June and July 6 2022, we wrote about Mr David Wimble’s application, as proprietor and owner of the Looker Magazine, to the High Street Fund for nearly [...]

Six weeks on where’s the eight years of council procurement card data?

July 18, 2022 // 2 Comments

Back in March of this year, Internal Audit in it’s quarterly report (see page 8) made it clear there were twenty four active procurement cards [read credit card] issued [...]

Leas Pavillion crumbles, while money for development flows in from offshore company

July 17, 2022 // 2 Comments

As parts of the Leas Pavillion, Folkestone, begin to crumble unexpectedly, the developer, Olivier Georges Jacques Daelemans, is lucky that work is under way to protect and [...]

Child Poverty Across Kent. It’s not all doom and gloom

July 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

New figures released on July 12 by End Child Poverty show that eight districts across Kent have seen a decrease in child poverty – 0-15 year olds – and four [...]

	Marcus on The rise and fall of Joanna St…
	A Council Employee on Holidays & Hypocrisy
	Observer on More Financial Irregularities…
	Kevin on Holidays & Hypocrisy
	Neil on Three Areas of Kent put forwar…