Guest 687- Registered: 2 Jun 2009
- Posts: 513
As I have posted elsewhere, all Charlie needs to do to bring the land into community use is to go out there and mow it, no need to buy it. I am sure DDC would welcome this act of kindness. However I cannot help but think that perhaps the purchase of the land would enhance the saleability of the property come next May.
Jan, perhaps Gordon is point scoring but after all he is I believe leader of the local Labour group and this is what he should be doing, its called politics.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,872
Ken, I admit I am prejudiced where Gordon Cowan is concerned.
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Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Unfortunately Gordon tries to score points against anyone who isn't Gordon, whether they are red, blue, orangish or purple - he has form.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Guest 687- Registered: 2 Jun 2009
- Posts: 513
I will admit Gordon's public persona does tend to detract from the good things he does, especially the work he does promoting sport, in particular football, for the youth of Dover.
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,937
Just to ensure continuity Brian:
Today
Brian Dixon wrote
I cant find the original thread but here is the outcome
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/New-row-sale-council-land-MP/story-22910779-detail/story.html
liberte,egalite,franernnty.
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Our UKIP candidate has raised this in his election campaign claiming to have just heard about it despite starting the thread over 6 months. A new low in politics.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Not a new low just one that surfaces every time there is an election. Muck raking whoever does it or for whichever party only turns me off as a voter.
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 2,438
This election is going to be dirtier than most I fear. The nearer it gets the worse it will be.
Audere est facere.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Just glad I am not standing this time ,out of it for good not even voting.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Charlie and Clair are keeping it clean just slagging off each other's party which is the norm, Neither have tried to smear another candidate.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The offending thread has been taken down from Facebook. orders from above I suppose. The party that doesn't have a whipping system indeed.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,256
David Little wrote:Of course there's nothing underhand, but not everybody is as intelligent and fair minded as you Roger, plenty will use this as an opportunity to bash DDC and Charlie.
This is about judgement and transparency, not wrongdoing.
Strange how David would now use it to bash Charlie, or perhaps he was talking about himself as one of the plenty!
Arte et Marte
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Why would it be orders from above Howard?
I thought it odd as well Reginald, muck raking and stirring seldom shows anyone in a good light.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Murky legal territory Jan. David has seen his challenge to Charlie fall back and seems to have decided to play a desperation card. His comments originally exonerated Charlie from any suggestion of wrong doing but today he encouraged his cohorts to suggest that the sitting member had questions to answer.
You can be sure that the acting chairman and campaign organiser were watching closely and instructed him to delete the thread.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,256
It's a shame David threw his lot in with ukip, his local community ideas and proposals could have got him over the line, but the party ideas and policies just turn most people away, as an independent I would have given serious consideration to putting my cross in his box
Arte et Marte
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,872
Howard, my point was how do you know he was instructed rather than choosing to delete it himself. There was nothing wrong with the debate the last time I read it and Neil was doing an excellent job giving the true facts.
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Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Thanks Jan. I am not keen on innuendo, conjecture and deliberate misinterpretation and was just trying to counter some of the false impressions that were being encouraged. Generally I don't really like to comment on threads that have a political agenda behind them. Especially on this occasion, when I must have come across to the partisans as some kind of rabid Charlie loving deep blue Tory. The herd at the moment is starting to bay a UKIP tune, despite many protestations of being radical free thinkers, and I'm not now, nor ever will be a member of the herd. I read many of David's posts because I consider him an old friend, can't say that I read the FB posts of the other candidates to the same degree, although I have been known to comment on Charlie's from time to time.
