First it’s election fever in Thanet tomorrow,
two elections one to replace Sandy Ezekiel as a TDC councillor and the other to
replace Ian Driver as a Ramsgate Town Councillor.
With the Labour domination at RTC, I don’t see
that it changes much there whoever gets elected.
With the TDC one, I don’t think the result
there would do much to change the balance of power there, the current situation
being; 26 - Labour Group; 23 - Conservative Group; 3 - Independent Group; 2 -
Thanet Independent Group; 1 – Independent.
No overall control with 6 independents holding
the balance of power, it would seem unlikely that the Conservative group will get
the leadership back and it seems most likely that we will have a Labour lead
TDC at least until the next district elections in ablut two years.
An interesting aspect of this one is that
local businesswoman and blogger Louise Oldfield is standing.
The candidates are: Wendy CHAPLIN Conservative
Party, Alan CURRIE Labour Party, Rozanne DUNCAN UKIP, Louise Elizabeth OLDFIELD
Independent, Seth PROCTOR Liberal Democrat.
The only candidate I have ever heard of or
can find any trace of their existence on the internet is Louise Oldfield, this
may be significant in the county elections the only non UKIP candidate that got
elected, Will Scobie appeared to be the only candidate with a normal internet
presence. By normal I mean that you can at least find their activity on
facebook and twitter.
I aint saying they aint there, just I couldn’t
find them, in this day and age, if say I was going to employ someone and I couldn’t
find any trace of them on the internet, I would find this a bit strange. I guess
timewarping back to when I first started voting in the early 70s, I would have expected
the person I voted for to have a telephone and to be able to use it, not sure I
would have bothered to look in the telephone directory, I would have just
assumed they had.
Addendum since I put the post up I have hade a tweet from
@AlanCurrie3 to say he is on twitter. He is standing
as the Labour candidate and has been on twitter for about a fortnight now so
the message may be getting across.
On to a rather bizarre aspect of TDC’s
management of The Royal Sands Development on The Pleasurama site in Ramsgate,
it seems TDC have been hosting an E-petion about the development on behalf of Friends
of Ramsgate Seafront and only one person responded to it.
Every time TDC involvement in this
development comes up one is inclined to wonder, incompetence or corruption and
with Friends of Ramsgate Seafront being a strong group, only one respondent
seemed pushing credulity a bit. It seems the petition ran from the 26/04/2013
to 29/04/2013 which seems a bit of a short time. Perhaps at some later date TDC
intend to make some unusual decision and justify it with the petition, who
knows here is the link to the petition information on the TDC website http://tdc-mg-dmz.thanet.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=54&RPID=4906224&HPID=4906224
And a link to the same document copied by
me in case it should unexpectedly vanish.
The Pictures are courtesy of Ben again and I may ramble on here
Michael I concur there is something very fishy going on here with these TDC links?
ReplyDeleteLast month I decided to publicise the link to the TDC Equality & Diversity Consultation whilst there was still a week to go (as you would expect I suppose). Trouble is, no matter how many times I carefully copied in the link, it just kept coming up as error?
Louise even has her own website that was created especially for this election, though oddly she hasn't posted anything since 27th April (I would've expected the KCC election results to have received comment):
ReplyDeletehttp://louiseoldfield.com/
Thankyou 5.34. I have read with interest.
ReplyDeleteGosh, you mean TDC is incompetent or fiddling the statistics? What will you do about it?
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Surely you do not consider all these one liner comments to be knowledge growing. Hardly stimulating debate is it with poor old SG past caring and some obscure Anon prattling on about TDC incompetence. What about some substance, a few facts or even a spicy rumour. Maybe even KLM could come back and wind up the aquifer man. Anything to break the boredom of a dull blogging day.
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DeleteThought Provoking. The kind of comment that leaves you wanting to know more.
DeleteHow very very entertaining, the other self important loud mouthed candidate in elections is rejected by 93% of the voters!
ReplyDeletePerhaps she will now join Driver under his stone, and let Thanet regenerate, something they have both conspired to prevent these last few years!
The voters have spoken Oldfield, shut up, and go away!