Will there be a by-election in Harbour Ward?
The Closet Tory – Cllr Ray Field (Ind) elected with 359 votes for the Harbour Ward in May 2019, has in the past been a vociferous voice in calling on Cllrs who have [...]
Amandeep Khroud
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s website does not adhere to GDPR on consent
It doesn’t surprise us, and by now it should NOT surprise you either. An investigation by the BBC Shared Data Unit proves beyond all reasonable doubt that Folkestone [...]
Part 3: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Financial Irregularities
In this final piece (for now) we look at at very specific part of the time line in the P & R potential £1.5 million pound fraud which came about as a result of failings [...]
Part 2: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Financial Irregularities.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council are looking for a new statutory s151 Officer. According to the Candidate Breifing Pack on Penna Recruitment & the [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Financial Irregularities
Irregularities in Cllrs expenses claims and paying P & R in breach of the Council’s contract both happened in 2018/19. Dr Susan Priest was the Head of Paid Service [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Significant Errors & Non Compliance with GDPR
Recently Folkestone & Hythe District Council compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) was audited by the East Kent Audit Partnership (EKAP) and [...]
The Hypocrisy & Stupidity of our Elected Councillors
They talk the talk but don’t walk the walk our Cllrs. In the May elections all of the opposition parties Green, Lib Dem and Labour campaigned on a platform of [...]
Councillors fail to disclose their election expenses.
Nineteen out of thirty Folkestone & Hythe District Council Councillors are currently committing a criminal offence. Three are in a grey area, and the other seven are [...]
Cllr David Wimble committing fraud?
According to the vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cllr David Wimble, Cabinet Member for the District Economy (pictured) who represents [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council senior management handsomely rewarded for failure
The top three tiers of management at Folkestone & Hythe District Council (F&HDC) have been handsomely rewarded for their failure to manage and oversee the Swale [...]
Is another Tory Folkestone & Hythe District Councillor on the fiddle?
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 [...]
Another significant data breach by Folkestone & Hythe District Council.
“I’m busy. I’m in a meeting” were the words of the monitoring officer and Solicitor to Folkestone & Hythe District Council, (FHDC), Amandeep [...]
Bagging a bargain by undue influence?
Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) offered a number of residents of Shorncliffe Crescent (pictured below) the chance to buy small parcels of land at the end of [...]
Princes Parade Hythe: Business Plan comes before Overview & Scrutiny on the 12th Feb
The Princes Parade Business plan will be heard by the Overview & Scrutiny Committee on Tuesday 12th February and then go onto Cabinet on the 13th February. There have [...]
Defending the public interest
The Public Interest needs defending. But who does it need defending from? Folkestone & Hythe District Council and Councillor Russell Tillson, that’s who. In the [...]
Lack of Transparency: Kent District Cllrs Allowances & Expenses now published annually.
All 12 Councils (not including Medway) in Kent, have elected to publish Cllrs allowances and expenses on an annual basis. There has not been a word about this lack of [...]
A distinct lack of substance in the local Tory Party.
Dire Straits is what it is, financial dire straits to be precise. In a meeting of the local executive of Folkestone & Hythe Conservative Association on Friday 28th Sept [...]
Roman Assets: Pensand House & Marlborough Court, Hythe and 3 & 4 Dalby Square Margate
EXCLUSIVE During the Yeltsin Presidency (1991 – 1999) of the Russian Federation, privatization of the state led to a lot of people become very wealthy. This was [...]
“Full investigation” into money laundering concerns around Pensand House & Marlborough Court
Nationwide Building Society will begin a “prompt and full investigation” into concerns raised with them regarding money laundering around the initial deposit and [...]
Part 2: Ownership of Pensand House & Marlborough Court
The Russian Federation claim in a legal case there was money laundering, embezzlement and fraud. This is supported by evidence in a well researched book; whose two authors [...]
Princes Parade is NOT a done deal
Cambridge educated Cllr Russell Tillson, (pictured below) who is a Cllr on Dymchurch Parish Council, St Mary’s Bay Parish Council, a town Councillor on New Romney Town [...]
Former Cllr Peter William Simmons
Too many of us no doubt believe that Councillors are a law unto themselves in our District. This in part could be supported by the fact the Monitoring Officer of Folkestone [...]
Job losses and efficiency savings at Shepway District Council.
“…during these difficult times we [the management] will be making every effort possible to ensure that the impact on staff of these cuts is as small as [...]
The Closing down of Democracy – Part 2
In England only, the Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014 – Statutory Instrument 2014/2095 (hereafter the Regs) amended s1 of the 1960 Act with effect [...]
Closing Down Democracy
Updated 11am: updated Sunday 4th Feb Midday Mr Alistair Stewart Chief Exec of Shepway District Council (SDC) has closed down the democratic right of a member of the public to [...]