 It was good to join our brilliant and local Kent County Council candidate for Herne Village and Sturry, Louise Harvey-Quirke.
Louise and her dedicated campaign team are doing their best to speak to and deliver to residents across the division.
Not long now till polling day - on Thursday 1st May, please use your vote to support LOUISE HARVEY-QUIRKE ✔️🗳️ |  Getting out in the sunshine to support our candidate in the Kent County Council elections for Herne Bay East - Dan Watkins.
Dan and his team have been out everyday delivering leaflets and talking to residents. If they haven’t got to you yet, they should be with you soon!
If you live in the division for Herne Bay East, on 1st May please vote for DAN WATKINS |  It was a pleasure to be able to join our brilliant candidate, Sue Chandler who is standing in the Kent Count Council Elections for Sandwich.
Sue and her team have been out everyday talking to residents and delivering leaflets across the division - thank you to all those who have pledged their support.
If you live in the Sandwich division, on Thursday May 1st please vote for SUE CHANDLER ✔️🗳️ |
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 Out in Manston with our two local and experienced candidates standing in the Kent County Council elections for Birchington and Rural - Derek Crow-Brown and Phil Fellows.
Both of them have been out everyday over the campaign talking to residents and delivering leaflets. If you haven’t received one, you will soon!
Polling day is on Thursday 1st May - if you live in the Birchington and Rural division please vote for - DEREK CROW BROWN & PHIL FELLOWS ✔️🗳️ |  We have been incredibly fortunate with the weather so far during the campaign.
It was good to join our candidate for the Thanet District Council by-election for Thanet Villages, Ash Ashbee in St Nicholas.
When Leader of the Council Ash took the hard decisions that others wouldn’t and has always supported me in my fight and campaign to see Manston Airport reopen.
If you live in in St Nicholas, Minster, Monkton, Acol, Sarre or Manston - on Thursday 1st May, please go and vote for ASH ASHBEE ✔️ |  📮POSTAL VOTES ARE ARRIVING IN HERNE BAY, STURRY & WHITSTABLE📮
If you live in Herne Bay, Sturry, Whitstable and the surrounding villages and have a postal vote you will today start to receive them. Please send it back supporting our brilliant candidates:
Herne Village & Sturry:
Louise Harvey-Quirke✔️
Herne Bay East:
Dan Watkins ✔️
Whitstable East & Herne Bay West:
Neil Baker ✔️
Candidate’s who will work tirelessly to represent you. |
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 Last night I voted to protect Hospices and GPs from Labour’s job tax.
Unfortunately, Labour voted against protecting them. |  Making the most of the lovely spring weather getting out to support our experienced candidate for the Thanet Villages by-election - Ash Ashbee (and of course Scruff the dog).
If you live in, Minster, Manston, Acol, Monkton, Sarre or St Nicholas on May 1st, please make sure you support ASH ASHBEE ✔️ |  you will also have a by-election to elect your new councillor to represent you on Thanet District Council.
Ash Ashbee, who is our candidate for this by-election, I believe brings the expertise, experience and commitment that the residents of Thanet Villages deserve.
Ash’s work whilst leader of the council speaks for itself and I have no hesitation in asking the residents of Minster, Acol, Monkton, Manston, Sarre and St Nicholas in voting for Ash Ashbee on Thursday 1st May. |
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 Good to join Simon Jones, founder and CEO of Helping Rhinos at the presentation in the House of Commons that I sponsored this week.
We have to save these endangered species but some present were asking, seriously, which species is more endangered: the black rhino or the human race! |  Good to join Simon Jones, founder and CEO of Helping Rhinos at the presentation in the House of Commons that I sponsored this week.
We have to save these endangered species but some present were asking, seriously, which species is more endangered: the black rhino or the human race! |  Huge thanks to Simon Opher for Stroud, Sir Roger Gale, Roz Savage MP, Simon Hoare MP, Clive Lewis MP, Carla Denyer—and all of the #CANBill’s cross-party co-sponsors—for championing the Climate and Nature Bill! |
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 With Chordoma survivor comedian Matt Forde at the House to promote the cause of the provision of sanitary bins in men’s lavatories.
Not a subject that you will find on the Order Paper every day- but for those like Matt, who need them, the absence of this necessary item can be no laughing matter. We owe it to Prostate Cancer UK and its supporters to get this simple issue addressed. |  Anne Puckridge will celebrate her 100th Birthday just before Christmas. Sadly, although she paid national insurance contributions throughout her working life in the UK her pension was frozen when she retired to live in Canada.
I and the All-Party Group that I chaired throughout the last parliament believe that the UK should treat this as a debt of honour and at least uprate overseas pensions, if only based upon today’s rates, for those who have paid their dues. |  I am pleased that today the "Puppy Smuggling Bill", which I supported, unexpectedly has been voted through to a Second Reading. It now stands a reasonable chance in becoming law in due course. |
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 I supported the maintenance of the winter fuel payment in the voting lobby today.
This vicious Government measure is a policy made in Downing Street. It has nothing to do with the state of the nation’s finances or the ‘black hole’ created in large part by inflationary pay increases for public sector workers and train drivers but was raised in the Commons by the current Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, as long ago as 2014!
Part of Starmer’s hidden agenda that did not feature in Labour’s election manif |  With National Farmers Union President Tom Bradshaw at the Palace of Westminster this week: I have real concerns about the new administration's proposed planning reforms and a consequential loss of still more of the farm land on which we grow the corn that literally puts bread on our tables.
No farms = No food |  I have yesterday written, with the support of my Councillor colleagues from Birchington North, Birchington South and Kent County Council (Cllr George Kup, Cllr Reece Pugh, Cllr Emma Dawson, Cllr Phil Fellows, Cllr Linda Wright & Cllr Derek Crow-Brown) to ask the Secretary of State for Local Government to call in the planning application for 1,600 homes proposed for Birchington. Below is a copy of that letter |
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 I have yesterday written, with the support of my Councillor colleagues from Birchington North, Birchington South and Kent County Council (Cllr George Kup, Cllr Reece Pugh, Cllr Emma Dawson, Cllr Phil Fellows, Cllr Linda Wright & Cllr Derek Crow-Brown) to ask the Secretary of State for Local Government to call in the planning application for 1,600 homes proposed for Birchington. Below is a copy of that letter |  Manston Airport🛫
A correct result. Appeal dismissed. Judges unanimous.
Now we can move forward to generate the job creating net-zero carbon state of the art airport that most people in East Kent want to see operating as soon as possible. |  I wholeheartedly endorse the views expressed by the Westgate and Garlinge Action Group in respect of the potential use of farmland in Shottendane as a travellers` campsite.
I recognise that the Council has a statutory duty to provide such a site but the Garlinge/Shottendane land is ill-suited to the purpose and there are other and potentially more acceptable sites available.
I strongly support the view, shared by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee and the Action Group
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