Labour

Exclusive: Tory election result letter by Chairman Stephen James to their members

May 8, 2023 // 15 Comments

Exclusive As you know by now, the Tories in Folkestone & Hythe took a battering at the polling stations across the district on 4 May 2023. Within 48 hours the Chairman [...]

A vote for Rylands is a vote to protect your heritage

April 30, 2023 // 6 Comments

Heritage has the power to stir people’s souls, guide human responses, and galvanize public opinion. Understanding and preserving our past has forever been integral to our [...]

Cost of Living Crisis – Yet more locals to become migrants due to being priced out of the local rental market.

October 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

A Bureau of Investigative Journalism analysis of 648 rental properties across eight districts of Kent shows 99% of those advertised over a single month (July 2022) were [...]

Nearly One in Four Council Meetings held behind closed doors

October 27, 2021 // 2 Comments

Since the local elections of May 2019, which ushered in 13 Tory Cllrs, 6 Labour Cllrs (one later became an Independent) 6 Green Cllrs and 2 Lib Dem Cllrs, 2 UKIP Cllrs [...]

Ex Mayor gets Dick out.

May 7, 2021 // 6 Comments

Ex Mayor of Folkestone Cllr Jackie Meade (Lab) May 2019/May20 ousted incumbent Kent County Council Tory Cllr Dick Pascoe, and took the Folkestone East seat in the KCC [...]

General Election: Profiling of voters is off limits

November 1, 2019 // 1 Comment

Personal data about you is held by all the major political parties. They harvest it, process it on an industrial scale and use it to target individuals across all regions of [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Greens, Labour & Lib Dems failing the people of our district.

September 25, 2019 // 6 Comments

A motion is not something you do while sitting on the privy reading the morning paper online via your tablet. No! A motion is a request made by a councillor for an issue [...]

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 [...]

SDC Gagging Orders increase 82% in 2015/16

July 1, 2016 // 4 Comments

As of the 30th June 2016 Shepway District Council placed their unaudited accounts for 2015/16 online. We would like to draw your attention to page 79 of the accounts and [...]

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