howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Labou were out in force in Aylesham yesterday with a bit of help from Folkestone and Hythe who will also help getting the vote out on Thursday.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Surely not canvassing on a Sunday.I never canvassed or delivered a leaflet on a Sunday. Old fashioned beliefs maybe but it never cost me votes.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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My mistake it was Saturday.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Thank goodness Howard for the correction.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Lots of pressing the flash and kissing baby’s going on .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I was talking to one of the canvassers from Folkestone who told me that there was a lot of support for UKIP on the doorstep and he was surprised they weren't standing.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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I don't know how true it is but I was talking to one of the local councillors and asking what connection 'Bruiser' Cowan has with Aylesham.
Apparently he used to be the milkman there.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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They have 60 labour members in Aylesham some of them good people, don’t understand how they ended up with Gordon ?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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By the by Gordon recently donated £.5000 of his KCC allowance to Clarendon and Westbury Community association to help cure the damp problem in the hall.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:By the by Gordon recently donated £.5000 of his KCC allowance to Clarendon and Westbury Community association to help cure the damp problem in the hall.
It's hardly a 'donation' distributing what was our money in the first place and which is ring-fenced for 'community' stuff anyway.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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Very nice of him to give it to a local group in need, much better than some girl band in Ethiopia which the daft government gave our tax money to.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Re post 70 I agree with Bob.The idea of Councillors getting this sum of money to hand out to the community in its infancy seemed a good idea.,however times have changed .it is tax payers money.DDC Councillors had £1,000 then it was lumped into a pot of money with KCC and called neighbour hood forums which are costly to run and organisations have to bid for the money.The individual ward Councillors have little say.I would not dare to say it could have political bias.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Most people don't know who their county councillors are so the grant system is a good way of connecting the public and their representatives.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Most people don't know who their county councillors are so the grant system is a good way of connecting the public and their representatives.
I disagree. It's a way for the incumbent politician to show what the punters naively view as personal largesse (though the money has come from the voters in the first place), often on popular but useless schemes, giving him/her an advantage in any forthcoming election.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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why did the councillor jack in ?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Keith Bibby wrote:why did the councillor jack in ?
Pressure from his 'colleagues'.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Post74 you have got it in one .Howard you can connect with KCCMembers they usually or should attend Parish or Town Council meetings.I used to go with the late Bryan Cope to Alkham and sometimes Lydden .Keith used to come to River.
I have said before money talks .
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Re the cause of the vacancy he was a bright lad probably did not fit in .Spoke his mind ?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Sue Nicholas wrote:Re the cause of the vacancy he was a bright lad probably did not fit in .Spoke his mind ?
Don't forget that Basher Cowan was 'fewmin' when the local party picked Ms Hawkins as the PPC last time around as they were running an all XX chromosome list.
Aylesham is all part of his plan to stand against Charlie (once he's nobbled the Young Pretender the Wearside Wonder) in the next General Election.
Unfortunately Basher screwed it all up by standing for DDC last in Town and Pier where the excellent Jim Hood was standing down and had a huge personal vote.
Meanwhile at Fort Whitfield, in the absence of Basher the redoubtable Mike Eddy (who also collects council allowances as others might collect stamps) has taken over as 'leader of opposition' (Special Responsibility Allowance of £4,081.26 on top of Standard Allowance of £3,980.04).
Were Basher to be elected expect fireworks in the chamber as Eddy and Basher loath each other as only members of the Labour Party can, especially when there is money involved, plus the fact that Eddy, though far too modest to push himself forward, is waiting for the local party to come to their senses and see himself as the candidate to take on our Charlie!
(God, I miss Dubris!
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"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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- Location: Dover
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Post 80: But Esme previously posted (under boundary changes) that 'Dover will loose Aylesham and gain Sandwich'.
(Not my real name.)