Cllr assisgned to wrong ward and other c*ck ups by the Council.
Honestly we are NOT making it up. We don’t need to when Folkestone & Hythe District Council are around as they are the gift which keeps giving. For those of you [...]
David Wimble
Facts and Solutions to help small and start up businesses in our district.
We need a thriving district. We need a business friendly environment. We need to help businesses come here, and local start up businesses to thrive here. We need to help them [...]
Just for the record
This is a guest post For the record and for clarity, my name is Bryan Rylands (pictured). I am the public face of The Shepway Vox Team. I am one of nine members of the [...]
Another hat trick of incompetence by Folkestone & Hythe DC.
No matter what one does, the same basic mistakes are being made time and again at Folkestone & Hythe District Council. And the Council have scored another hat trick of of [...]
Overview & Scrutiny: Retrofitting, Housing, Fuel Poverty and a dash of hypocrisy
Housing, housing, housing, it’s all about housing. On the agenda at the Overview & Scrutiny Committee held on the 17 Jan 2023 was Retrofitting Council homes in the [...]
Review of 2022: Trial dates, Prison Sentences, Financial Irregualrities and Damp & Mould
It’s been a tumultuous year by anyone’s standards. A war in Europe, a cost of living crisis, the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II; Liz Truss lasting just [...]
Part 2: Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a hilarious, heartfelt holiday Xmas classic, so keeping to the theme of Xmas, we thought we’d take a stroll through the evidence of [...]
The antics of three Folkestone Town Councillors
There are three tiers of Local Government in Kent. They are: County, District, Town/Parish. It is the last we wish to ruminate about today. But before we do, you must bear in [...]
Do you want £50 quid of your council tax? Here’s how to do it.
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 [...]
Cllr Monk alone approved David Wimble’s £19,000 High Street Fund application
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 [...]
The Looker’s £19,000 High Street Fund application to be heard by Overview & Scrutiny on the 13 July
On the 22nd June we ran the post: Wimble’s Looker Magazine, applies for £19,000 from Council’s High Street Fund Since then things have moved on at pace. The amount [...]
Wimble’s Looker Magazine, applies for £19,000 from Council’s High Street Fund
Cllr David Wimble (Ind) (pictured) is never a man far away from controversy or fake news. Just recently we informed you he’d made a complaint about Fred Miller of [...]
From top to bottom, is the council rotten?
When an organisation such as Folkestone & Hythe District Council, fails to manage and curtail ‘financial irregularities’, ‘contract [...]
Tory Cllr Danny Brook defects to Wimble’s Independent Party
Cllr Danny Brook (pictured) has left the Folkestone & Hythe Conservative Party and joined Cllr David Wimble’s independent party. This now makes the Tories one Cllr [...]
Russell Tillson uses confidential information in Wimble’s Looker magazine and places lives in danger.
Updated – Thursday 17.3.22 @ 08:12am. On Wednesday 9 February, 2022, St Mary’s in the Marsh Parish Cllr, Russell Tillson, wrote the front page story in The [...]
More evidence of incompetence emerges at the Council
Updated 14/03/22 – The Council have now placed the right document in the right location. One has to admit there are times when Folkestone & Hythe District Council [...]
£250,000 of Green Cash to be given away by the Council to help the environment
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet is being asked to agree approval to establish a £250,000 fund to provide grants to support local businesses to improve their [...]
Wimble & Field’s new party already breaking data protection law
Updated 12:10 07/11/21 David Wimble & Ray Field have set up a new party in the district. The Laurel & Hardy of local politics have chosen to call their party [...]
Is Cllr David Wimble a Liar? – You decide.
What the FCUK does it take to get Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s monitoring officer – Amandeep Khroud- to take any action against a Cllr for not [...]
Council accidentally release Covid Grant data
Curiosity killed the cat – Anon Honestly you would have thought they’d learnt by now, but no. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have committed another faux [...]
Ain’t no rest for the wicked
Many of you already know Folkestone & Hythe District Council have had the highest council tax of all Kent local authorities for the last eighteen years. Council tax is [...]
Cllrs claim more allowances in 2020/21 than 2019/20
In the 2020/21 financial year, when Covid hit, when all Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors couldn’t travel to conferences and claim subsistence and other [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s £40 million pound waste contract fiasco
It’s a £40 million pound fiasco. For the second time in less than six weeks Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been forced to apologise for the poor service [...]
The local developer being helped along by the public purse
Over the last six years, one developer more than any other has come to epitomise the cosyiness that leads many to think/believe our planning system and committee is fixed in [...]
“Our council is broken at best” says ePetition campaigner
Almost twenty years after our Council introduced a Cabinet system in the year 2000, – Cllr Tim Prater on the 25th Sept 2019, put forward the following motion for the [...]