howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Got my Tory leaflet together with a copy of "In Touch" which we normally get when they want to get in touch at election time. Had a look outside and Roger was just out of brick throwing distance so I went back to read up on the valued literature. After a minute or so of stifling a chortle another lot came through the door!!
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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In over forty years of campaigning I never broke the golden rule no leaflets or canvassing on a Sunday
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Some of this stuff through the door gets ever more surreal. According to the Tory spin they got our railway up and running in 9 months instead of 2 years, I don't remember 2 years being mooted in any sort of serious way. It goes on about 13 failed years of Labour in Dover but to my recollection the Tories have controlled the district for the last 14. The final paragraph says "Great things are happening in our community thanks to Conservative action. Jeremy Corbyn's extreme Labour party would fail us all."
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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tory spin,sounds odd to me.
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All party,s have let Dover down in the pass but now we are moving forwards.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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vic,which leg of yours fell off,your left or right one.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Who ever is writing these leaflets is completely out of touch.The KCC election nothing to do with DTZIZ or the repair to the rail track.
KCC education ,social care .highways,.stragetic planning.So if you have children or getting on a bit think who you vote.for .Oh nearly forgot bus passes.
When the lights were switched off on Whitfield Hill i Know who helped me the most .No canvassing on here but you need workers .
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It was the left one sir
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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vic,get doctor to sew it back on soon as...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The Tories were out in force in town earlier with Pauline Beresford and Sue Chandler handing out bright blue balloons to everyone except me. Not that I care really, one prick and they're gone, speaking of which I didn't see Charlie out there.
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That will keep us away from the town centre
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:The Tories were out in force in town earlier with Pauline Beresford and Sue Chandler handing out bright blue balloons to everyone except me. Not that I care really, one prick and they're gone, speaking of which I didn't see Charlie out there.
'You can come out now Charlie, that dreadful McSweeny fellow has gone'
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Mrs Napier is involved in attempts to get a pedestrian crossing in Elms Vale Road but is wide of the mark when making political capital out of it. The Department of Transport have held the view for many decades that crossings are only brought in when there has been a sufficient number of accidents close by. In other words we have to wait for an accident to happen.
Amazing how the NHS and Paul Nuttall are playing a part in a DDC by-election.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:
Amazing how the NHS and Paul Nuttall are playing a part in a DDC by-election.
Amazing when you consider that most of the so-called privatisation happened under Labour and Paul Nuttall's UKIP (which sounds a bit like Monty Python's Flying Circus ?) has exactly zero MPs.
I'm truly surprised that they have the temerity to mention the NHS after saddling us all with over three decades of PFI debt. Same old Labour. Spend money they don't have and leave others to mop up.
104 NHS trusts in England will have to pay private companies £1.96 billion by the end of the financial year for PFI deals – enough to pay for treatment of cystic fibrosis patients for 20 years.
The PFI deals financed £11.8 billion in building hospitals in England but will cost £79 billion to pay back over 31 years – equivalent to almost £4,000 per household in Britain.
The 20 most expensive PFI deals will cost the NHS £970 million in debt repayment fees this year.
Four private firms will be paid £39 billion over the course of the PFI deals, and almost £1 billion this year.Guest 1849 likes this
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#73.looks like a police line up of the most unwanted persons.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Whilst I appreciate the endevours of would be politicians what ever colour I have never manned a street stall to persuade people to vote for me .I found the canvassing on the door step and working all year round paid off.As Gwynn Prosser once said about me when you know people's names plus the cats and dogs you will elected.I think the children love the balloons what ever colour .Still what do I know ?You need to work not just at election times.
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Captain Haddock wrote:I'm truly surprised that they have the temerity to mention the NHS after saddling us all with over three decades of PFI debt. Same old Labour. Spend money they don't have and leave others to mop up.
Do you honestly believe that Jeremy Corbyn's socialism is the same as the Tony Blair's? In short, the Labour Party now compared to Blair's neo-liberalists - are they the same thing in your eyes?
I agree with your point whole-heartedly about PFI in the NHS. Your Tories have been at the helm since 2010 - have they changed that? Of course they haven't, they have exacerbated the problem. Will the neo-liberalists in the LiarDem, Tory or UKIP stop this issue if elected? No - but Corbyn would. Same old Labour?! Captain Haddock you are sounding more like a (u)Kipper!
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Keith Sansum1
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Sue
I think a cllrs you need to reach as many as possible so I use social media, like the forum, local papers, letter writing door knocking every 2 weeks, case work,. meetings, surgeries plus much more.
but like you say its better to be around all the year not just at election time
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Dear Bishop,
And exactly how would
anyone legally manage to get out a legal contract (which is what the PFI arrangement is)? Claim that you only entered into the contract under duress? Say you were out of your head after an evening out with the Mayor and didn't know what you were signing? Perhaps they might declare bankruptcy like some central African kleptocracy? The Jubilee Debt Campaign is just the sort of mad scheme Jezza probably supports so we might as well be on the end that screws the system rather than the perpetually screwed?
(p.s. Got you a fridge magnet of La Macarena.
Believe it or not it's SO much more than a dance and a catchy tune. Who would have thought it? You live and learn)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
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