On 7th May everyone in Thanet will get at least
two ballot papers and some people will get three. The ones that everyone will
get is the one to vote for an MP and the one to vote for either two or three
Thanet District Councillors.
On previous election days people who were only expecting the
one ballot paper phoned me up to ask me if I knew anything about the people
standing in the district election.
So first you need to know which ward you live in, if you
don’t know, click on this link http://democracy.thanet.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx?
Once you know which ward you live you can find a list of the
candidates by clicking on this link https://thanet.gov.uk/your-services/elections-and-voting/district-election-2015/district-election-2015/
Trying to find out what the candidates and parties plan to
do at TDC, if they get elected, is much more difficult, I have tried Tweeting
the three main parties to see if they have a manifesto for the council
election, this was yeasterday and none of them have replied yet.
@Bluethanet
do you have a TDC Manifesto i.e. what Conservative councillors will do if
elected
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@ThanetLab
do you have a Labour TDC manifesto i.e. what Labour councillors aim to do
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@ukip_sththanet
do you have a UKIP TDC manifesto i.e. what ukip councillors would do?
I bumped into one of the UKIP council candidates today and
asked them if there was a UKIP TDC manifesto, their answer was that they would
let me have one, when one gets written.
I didn’t have much time, but I did put the Manston cpo
question to the UKIP candidate, what I said was. “While I supported saving
Manston Airport as a regional passenger and freight airport that we could fly
from, I am totally against the plans for the council to cpo the airport site
for an airfreight only hub. Also that I thought being very close to the runway and
directly on the flight approach route of an airfreight hub would be disastrous for
tourism in Ramsgate.”
I have to admit that I was fairly surprised when the UKIP
candidate agreed with me, so I may be voting UKIP after all.
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