The following is a statement of the persons nominated for election
as a District Councillor for Westgate-on-Sea
*Decision of the Returning
Officer that the nomination is invalid or other reason why a person nominated
no longer stands nominated.
Name of
Candidate
|
Home Address
|
Description (if
any)
|
Reason why no
longer nominated*
|
ASHBEE
Ash
|
20
Canute Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9QJ
|
Independent
|
|
ELENOR
Jeffrey
|
30
Ramsgate Road, Margate, Kent, CT9 5RU
|
UK
Independence Party
|
|
FURNESS
Bill
|
25
Cross Road, Birchingtonon-Sea, CT7 9HN
|
Liberal
Democrat
|
|
HIBBERT
Jodie Sharon
|
65
Grosvenor Place, Margate, CT9 1UX
|
The
Labour Party Candidate
|
|
MASKELL
James Kelvin
|
32
Hawley Sq, Margate, Kent, CT9 1PH
|
The
Conservative Party Candidate
|
|
MENDELSOHN
Claire
|
38
Royal Road, Ramsgate, Kent, CT11 9LE
|
Independent
|
|
Extracting the table of persons nominated from the council’s
pdf file, so I could publish it above was a computing test that I don’t recommend
trying.
I am aiming to come up with some politically impartial
post there, but having already been slated as a Labour supporter today, see http://thanetpress.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/britains-no1-coming-to-broadstairs.html
I guess it’s going to be an uphill struggle.
Here are the Westgate-on-Sea Ward results for the election
in May 2011.
Thomas George King Independent 853 17% Elected
Simon Moores The Conservative Party Candidate 793 16% Elected
Brian Goodwin The Conservative Party Candidate 751 15% Elected
Richard Chapman The Conservative Party Candidate 675 14% Not elected
David Michael Bull The Labour Party Candidate 555 11% Not elected
Lynda Diane Robinson The Labour Party Candidate 528 11% Not elected
Meg Harvey The Labour Party Candidate 444 9% Not elected
Rosamund Mary
Parker UK Independence Party 283 6% Not elected
One way or another it looks as though this is
going to be a pretty close run thing, with the most like result being either
the Labour candidate or the Conservative candidate getting elected. I will
ramble on about this once I see that this rather complicated post of tables and
images looks ok published, the bookshop is pretty quiet today due to the
weather so I should get time.
Both the Labour and Conservative candidates are young people
and I would say the young people of Thanet are very under represented when it
comes to councillors.
I also guess a lot of us have met Jodie Hibbert, who I
first met when she was getting signatures for the Save Dreamland campaign here
in Ramsgate.
Assuming that a large proportion of the electorate would
vote for a hat stand if it was Labour or Conservative this leaves the actual
decision down to the floating voters like me. Usually voting in Thanet seems to
be more about keeping one party out than getting the party with the best ideas
in.
Interesting in this case where I would think either
Jodie or James would make good councillors, certainly much better than some of
the existing councillors, some of which fall into the bracket of being both so
offensive and so stupid that I would consider them to be unemployable.
So it seems there is no-one who lives in Westgate who is willing to stand. "Local" politics my a**e
ReplyDeleteApparently not but it's all still Thanet. How many councillors live in the ward they represent?
ReplyDeleteIgnoring the politics and looking at the local history - what was a "Model Dockyard"????
ReplyDeleteWhere is the reference to the model dockyard?
DeleteIn the photo ads on the last page: "Tarner's Model Dockyard" Established 1887.
ReplyDeleteI have tried Dr. Dawn Crouch the Westgate historian and although she was aware of the advert and had tried to find out, she hadn’t managed to find any other reference to it. She did confirm that both the garden and house are small, so for the moment I have drawn a blank.
DeleteLooks like the independent vote will come out on top but neither candidate will get in.
ReplyDeleteOn what do you base that conclusion?
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