UK Councils Lose £8.8 Billion a Year to Fraud and Waste: Full Breakdown
An in-depth investigation into how local authorities are losing billions through procurement fraud, payroll scams, housing abuse and mismanagement—based on official [...]
Private Eye
Reform UK’s ‘Doge Unit’ Targets KCC: Transparency or Political Muscle?
Reform UK, which now holds sway at Kent County Council, has brought in its Department of Government Efficiency—known as the Doge unit—to scrutinise council spending, [...]
Brown envelopes, theft, fraud and our Council
It’s a story which is nine years old and never been told before. But before we tell that story, one needs some background. But before we begin, what one must remember [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Under Starters Orders
So we are under starters orders. The Otterpool Park planning application; which we said at the beginning of this month had a provisional date of 4 April 2023, has now been [...]
Sandbanks – New Romney: Are local Tories ‘in hock’ to developers via their donations?
Sandbanks planning application was successful at last night’s Planning Committee. However, it’s clear the closeness of the developer Leo Griggs with members of [...]
Approved Tory Parliamentary Candidate Stephen James resigned rather than face investigation into his professional standards as a teacher.
A fortnight ago we wrote about Stephen James (pictured). We highlighted that he’d come to the attention of Private Eye who ran a story on him. We made it clear he is an [...]
Michael Stainer and The Grand, Folkestone, reach the pages of Private Eye
Aviva, Michael Stainer, Hallam Estates, the freeholder of the Grand; and the Chairman of the Association of the Residents of the Grand, Peter Cobrin, make the pages of [...]
Cllr Monk’s Private Fishing Lake Reaches Private Eye Magazine Courtesy of The Shepwayvox Team
Once again the Shepwayvox Team have manged to reach the coveted pages of this week’s Private Eye Magazine (No 1527, 31 July – 13 Aug 2020 page 21). This time [...]
Kent Councils Sell 1,300 Council Homes Making £120 million
Seven local authorities in Kent have sold more than 1,300 council homes under right to buy (RTB) and made in excess of a £120 million, according to the latest figures [...]
Hythe Anxiety
As can be seen in Private Eye Magazine, Page 16, Rotten Boroughs, Issue No 1515 7th Feb – 20 Feb 2020 We’d like to say thank you to the person/s who sent this to [...]
“The True Value Is Probably More Scrap Value”
Love or loathe it, the Arch in Folkestone at the town end of the Leas has caused controversy from the moment it was born. According to the latest valuation the arch is worth [...]
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more”
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more“ Henry V – by William Shakespeare For the second time Mr Tim Steer (pictured) has rallied himself to [...]
The Long Read: Otterpool Park -update.
So what do you get for £281,230,000 or two hundred and eighty one million two hundred a thirty thousand pounds? Well, according to Kent County Council’s ( KCC) [...]
Hypocrite? You Decide
Damian Collins, MP for Folkestone & Hythe is chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee and we believe a hypocrite. Damian has recently written to the [...]
It Looks Like Bullshit, It Smells Like Bullshit, It Must Be…
Dorothy Rowe (pictured) is a psychologist. She has written a number of books and for a while was a contributor to Saga Magazine. One of her books is entitled “Why We [...]
Fake News & A Lie By Damian Collins MP.
We asked the question earlier this month whether or not Damian Collins MP (pictured) had lied regarding the transfer of 1,500 patients to other GP Surgeries. Damian placed [...]
Delusional Tories in a Rotten Borough, you decide.
Recently at a meeting of the Overview & Scrutiny Committe, Cllr Mary Lawes (UKIP) (pictured) called the Tory led chamber ‘Delusional’ on three occasions. [...]
80 Sidney Street, Folkestone & The Panama Papers
EXCLUSIVE The Prime Minister, Theresa May “reserved some of her most strident conference rhetoric for the subject of tax avoidance” at the Tory Party conference, [...]
SDC Contracts Register
Like all council’s Shepway District Council has a Contracts register, so that they do not lose track of them. The Contracts Register currently shows that SDC has 141 [...]