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Our public face curbs our Council’s right to charge for Environmental Information

June 10, 2019 // 5 Comments

On Sept 13th 2017, the Cabinet recommended that charging for Environmental Information would become mandatory. Report Number C-17-35 set out Shepway District Council’s [...]

Pipe down and don’t mention the overcharging and the Billion pound KCC accounts not signed off

June 9, 2019 // 8 Comments

A senior member of Shepway Green Party Cllr Martin Whybrow (pictured), a KCC and Hythe Town Councillor has suggested that our public face and the Shepwayvox Team “pipe [...]

Part 2: Racism against Travellers and Gypsies is still permissible – even in Folkestone & Hythe District

June 7, 2019 // 6 Comments

a YouGov/Traveller Movement survey, released in Oct 2017, found that more than 40% of British parents polled would be unhappy with a close relative forming a relationship [...]

Is another Tory Folkestone & Hythe District Councillor on the fiddle?

June 5, 2019 // 7 Comments

Yesterday we brought you the Cllrs allowances and expenses in three graphs. Now we will drill down into the detail of each Cllrs allowances and expenses claims, as submitted [...]

Cllrs Allowances & Expenses 2015/16 – 2018/19 in three graphs

June 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

Once again we have crunched the data on our Cllrs allowances & expenses and reproduced the data in three graphs which show what they have received in 2018/19, what they [...]

Restricted: Job Applications for the Head of Paid Service of Folkestone & Hythe District Council

June 3, 2019 // 2 Comments

On April 1st 2018, Dr Susan Julia Priest became the Head of Paid Service (HoPs). Being elevated to top job in the Council brought her an extra £10,000 on top of her previous [...]

The Long Read: All is not what it seems as we slide slowly into the Jaws of Death

June 2, 2019 // 15 Comments

The Planning Committee which will meet for the first time in June, would do no better than looking at the newly released Land Use statistics from the Ministry of Housing [...]

A highly incompetent and slovenly MP?

May 29, 2019 // 4 Comments

Recently the Daily Telegraph (paywall) ran a story about hundreds of MPs having their official credit cards suspended by the expenses watchdog, IPSA. Among the list of [...]

Brexit, a job for Andy Blaszkowicz

May 27, 2019 // 1 Comment

Candidates in the local Folkestone & Hythe District Council elections on May 2nd, each experienced a “Brexit” moment with a voter on a doorstep, just ask [...]

The Long Read: Overview & Scrutiny must follow the council pound and roar.

May 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

It is the committee which can allow citizens to have a greater say in Council matters, by holding public inquiries into matters of local concern. Such concerns might be a [...]

A “Stupidity of Cllrs”

May 23, 2019 // 1 Comment

Well, we used to think it was an “callousness” or a “lack of argument” of councillors but, having watched newly elected and re-elected members of the full district [...]

In plain sight: The affects of Austerity in Kent.

May 22, 2019 // 1 Comment

Regardless of where you look Austerity is taking its toll across the County of Kent. Whether it be rent arrears caused by Universal Credit, a lack of transport causing [...]

Turning round a ghost town. No shopper involvement necessary.

May 20, 2019 // 2 Comments

At the end of March 2019, 15% or rather 62 shops were vacant in the Primary and Secondary shopping areas of Folkestone town centre. Analysis by Folkestone & Hythe [...]

Part 1: Can we do it? Yes we can.

May 19, 2019 // 1 Comment

The term ‘Gyspy/Traveller’ does not constitute a homogenous category, but encapsulates a plethora of differing histories, beliefs and cultures. According to the latest [...]

Grant Thornton telling lies? You decide.

May 17, 2019 // 1 Comment

Grant Thornton is under investigation for it’s audits and earlier this year the Chief Executive of Grant Thornton informed the business, energy and industrial strategy [...]

Long term trend in Child Poverty increases across all districts of Kent

May 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Whichever one of the 12 districts in Kent you live in, Child Poverty has risen according to figures released by the End Child Poverty Campaign. When looked at over a period [...]

The rise and fall of Joanna Strickland

May 13, 2019 // 7 Comments

Joanna Strickland (pictured) a twice nominated Kent Business woman in 2016 & 2018 has left a trail of debt and trouble behind her and fled Folkestone to live life in [...]

A history of the Romney Wimble sheep companies

May 11, 2019 // 4 Comments

One of the new sheep on the block after the local elections, who goes by the name of Romney Wimble Sheep, has the Shepwayvox Team rather concerned. This particular sheep has [...]

Exclusive: Three new breeds of Romney Marsh sheep

May 10, 2019 // 2 Comments

Exclusive: Romney Marsh is a place known worldwide for producing some of the worlds finest sheep (Ovis Aries). The sheep are docile and are well known for following their [...]

Labour announce Cllr Jacqui Meade as new Mayor for Folkestone

May 7, 2019 // 5 Comments

We understand that Cllr Jacqui Meade (Lab) – pictured – has been put forward to become the first Labour Mayor of Folkestone in eighteen years. This will take [...]

Health inequalities in Kent parliamentary constituencies

May 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

Health inequalities cost lives. They are fundamentally linked to an inequality in wealth, access to services and political power. The most depressed parliamentary [...]

Part 2: Why does Folkestone & Hythe District Council encourage profiteering from homelessness?

May 5, 2019 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council are bribing private landlords to house homeless families. Throwing money away doesn’t address the causes of the problem. Landlord [...]

The lack of seeing differently

May 3, 2019 // 6 Comments

My name is Abigail and my name is Tina for the purposes of this blog post. We are both blind. We are just two of approximately ten thousand people in Kent who are visually [...]

Election Results: May 2nd 2019 – Hythe has gone Green and Folkestone has gone Red.

May 3, 2019 // 12 Comments

The new make of Folkestone & Hythe District Council is as follows – 13 Conservative, six Labour, six Green, two Ukip, two Lib Dem and one Independent. Results by [...]

Local Tories Landlord, Ray Johnson, says closure of Debenhams will not be a disaster.

May 2, 2019 // 3 Comments

Ray Johnson (pictured) for those of you who do not know, is Chairman of the Folkestone Town Team who mentioned that the closure of Debenhams would not be a disaster. [...]

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