A kind email from a grateful potential applicant!
Dear Andrew:I was recently informed by CCHQ that you will be shortly selecting your parliamentary candidate for 2015 and I intend to apply.As someone who works in the internet industry, I was...
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Back - and raring to go!
After a very restful week, I am back in Kent and raring to go. Jon Botten has held the fort magnificently, avoiding calling or emailing me - and I have also avoided the temptation to phone to "check...
View ArticleAnother reason why I keep writing this blog!
Wading through a mountain of emails and found this from a hard working campaigner in a South East constituency "You've done such a good job with West Kent. My own constituency is a complete shambles....
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Launch of Speakers' Corner; a new style policy discussion group in Tunbridge...
Congratulations and thanks to Cllr Nicholas Rogers, Deputy Chairman (Campaigning and Political) of Tunbridge Wells Association, for re-launching the Association's political discussion group. The new...
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Local Government Candidate Recruitment; the next steps
Two months ago I blogged about a campaign we were about to launch in West Kent to identify, recruit and train a new generation of potential local government candidates. The campaign included full page...
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Email to Tonbridge & Malling Association Members re Parliamentary Selection
With the deadline approaching for potential parliamentary candidates to submit their application form, it is understandable that they will be seeking as...
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Royal Mail - time for it to face the discipline of the free market
With the Labour Party and the Trades Unions predictably "frothing at the mouth" about the forthcoming privatisation of Royal Mail, I thought I would publish a simple "Is it Broken - Does it Need...
View ArticleHerding the many elephants in the room !
It's frantic at West Kent Towers right now - with Jon and I spinning plates and juggling over 40 different events and activities happening across our Associations.The "elephants in the room" are: The...
View ArticleI'm not gay, you know!
Amusing incident of the day.A potential applicant phoned earlier for a phone briefing, which I was happy to give. He then emailed to thank me (somewhat profusely) for the time I had spent chatting to...
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Our four outstanding candidates and their personal statements
This was published on the official tmselects.blogspot.co.uk a few moments ago.The Tonbridge & Malling Conservative Association is pleased to publish details of the final four candidates, along with...
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The West Kent Dream Team
West Kent Towers is over-run today with the "crème de la crème" of our volunteers, as we print thousands of ballot papers and pack hundreds of Information Packs for attendees at Saturday's Open...
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Ballots to the left of me, ballots to the right of me...
Twelve different ballot papers ready to go; covering each potential eventuality and outcome. Resident and Observer Information Packs printed and packed. Websites updated with Candidates' Personal...
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Participatory democracy isn't dead - it just needs reviving!
Several months ago, when news of Sir John Stanley's retirement was spreading, but before the Association had even started discussing arrangements for the selection, I received a call from a resident...
View ArticleOops! Advice to Labour Parliamentary Hopefuls
Advice to Labour Parliamentary Hopefuls..... when asking your Trades Union Paymasters to help write your latest press release, be careful not to send your email to a Conservative activist in error. Not...
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Iain Dale to host Tonbridge & Malling Primary
LBC 97.3 Drive Presenter, Iain Dale, will be Host / Moderator at the Tonbridge and Malling Open Primary on Saturday morning. Iain will be putting the four final candidates through their paces before...
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'Twas the night before Christmas .....
OK, not quite the night before Christmas, but it feels like it! It is the eve of what is probably the biggest event I have ever organised (apart from a eight General Election campaigns) and Jon and I...
View ArticleIain Dale on BBC South East Today
Whilst we were going through the running order at The River Centre this morning, BBC South East arrived to interview Iain Dale. This was for a news package they showed tonight during the South East...
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Live Blog from Tonbridge - as it happens!
It's TOM TUGENDHAT 13.10pm Result imminent 12noon Tom Tugendhat now on stage. Ballot will commence in 30 minutes. All four candidates have been outstanding; how on earth will people decide? All four...
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For SaleUsed and unused ballot papersVarious names in various combinationsOn white, blue and cream paperFour YOU DECIDE postersSlightly dog-earedFeaturing lots of attractive young peopleone slightly...
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