David Wimble

Overview & Scrutiny: Retrofitting, Housing, Fuel Poverty and a dash of hypocrisy

January 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

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

December 31, 2022 // 5 Comments

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

December 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

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

December 10, 2022 // 8 Comments

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Looker’s £19,000 High Street Fund application to be heard by Overview & Scrutiny on the 13 July

July 6, 2022 // 4 Comments

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

June 22, 2022 // 3 Comments

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?

June 4, 2022 // 3 Comments

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

May 11, 2022 // 4 Comments

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.

March 16, 2022 // 3 Comments

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

March 13, 2022 // 3 Comments

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

February 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

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

November 5, 2021 // 3 Comments

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.

September 22, 2021 // 5 Comments

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

September 17, 2021 // 4 Comments

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

July 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

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

June 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

June 4, 2021 // 4 Comments

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

May 3, 2021 // 4 Comments

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

April 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

“Our House is still on fire” – Climate & Ecological Working Group continue to hide Environmental Information behind closed doors.

March 15, 2021 // 1 Comment

On Thursday 18th March, the Climate & Ecological Working Group will meet behind closed doors to discuss matters which affect our environment. It will be chaired by Cllr L [...]

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