Governance

Part 2 – Lyminge Parish Council in Crisis: Missing Overtime Policy, Governance Gaps and Bullying Concerns

December 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

The follow-up to our earlier account is not pretty. Over the last few months of 2025, with the permanent clerk on leave and a temporary clerk in post, the parish council’s [...]

Part 1: Lyminge Parish Council: A Serving Councillor on Bullying, Clerk-Bashing and a Toxic Breakdown in Governance

December 11, 2025 // 5 Comments

As a parish councillor with no family ties to the current (on-maternity leave) Parish Clerk, I have watched the behaviour of some of my colleagues on Lyminge Parish Council [...]

Dumb, Dangerous and in Charge: Reform UK’s Procurement Tantrum Should Terrify Every Voter in Kent

July 14, 2025 // 3 Comments

What happens when you hand the toolkit of the state to people who don’t even know what the spanners are for? In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council to Retain Cabinet System Pending Final Ratification

April 9, 2025 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has received ministerial consent to retain its existing Leader and Cabinet governance structure—reversing a previously agreed plan [...]

Council overspend budget on transitioning to committee system by £22,000, so far

January 31, 2025 // 2 Comments

It had a budget of £100,000. However, at the first full council of the year, held on the 29 January 2025, Cllr David Godfrey (Con) made it clear the budget for moving to a [...]

Are they so different?

August 27, 2023 // 2 Comments

On the 21 June, the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance & Governance Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem), told the world the newly elected administration of Folkestone [...]

Council vote to move to committee system, with a little help from ice cream

June 23, 2023 // 5 Comments

There is so we are told, no such things as a dumb question. So here’s a question: Who likes Ice cream? We know Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem) Deputy Leader and Cabinet [...]

Princes Parade saved, but Council deficit magically increases by £2m.

May 25, 2023 // 21 Comments

Before we begin our report by our public face, who attended the Annual General Meeting of Folkestone & Hythe District Council meeting last night, 24 May 2023, which saw [...]

To be or not to be, that is the question.

May 15, 2023 // 2 Comments

It was often said of the last Tory led administration of Folkestone & Hythe District Council, they did things to us, rather than with us. But will this new administration [...]

Power to the people

April 20, 2023 // 1 Comment

A few days ago I received an election flyer through my door. On the flyer it states: “Move to a Committee system of governance in May 2024.” But I would go one [...]

Some things never change, that’s just the way it is

January 4, 2023 // 5 Comments

As we begin the new year, it seems old habits die hard. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have awarded five contracts to Brighter Homes, based in Folkestone, according [...]

Bruising reports remind Council’s Statutory Officers of contract & financial irregularities as a major issue as council face £18.5m deficit

December 8, 2022 // 3 Comments

They are without doubt, three remarkable, wise women. Each is able, each is a professional, and each is full of “intent, a clear intent” to instill compliance of [...]

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Governance

Part 2 – Lyminge Parish Council in Crisis: Missing Overtime Policy, Governance Gaps and Bullying Concerns

Part 1: Lyminge Parish Council: A Serving Councillor on Bullying, Clerk-Bashing and a Toxic Breakdown in Governance

Dumb, Dangerous and in Charge: Reform UK’s Procurement Tantrum Should Terrify Every Voter in Kent

Folkestone & Hythe District Council to Retain Cabinet System Pending Final Ratification

Council overspend budget on transitioning to committee system by £22,000, so far

Are they so different?

Council vote to move to committee system, with a little help from ice cream

Princes Parade saved, but Council deficit magically increases by £2m.

To be or not to be, that is the question.

Power to the people

Some things never change, that’s just the way it is

Bruising reports remind Council’s Statutory Officers of contract & financial irregularities as a major issue as council face £18.5m deficit

£1,452,646 spent on suppliers without a compliant contract

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

Whistleblower claims lack of governance and internal controls at FHDC

Is this evidence of Fraud, Financial Irregularities, Non Compliance @ Folkestone & Hythe District Council?

Whistleblower claims allegations of “serious and sustained fraud within the council”

More bent council contracts? You decide.

East Kent Housing “run on servers and software which are NOT compliant with the most basic data safety standards”

ICO Data Register