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Tom Tugendhat's thoughtful letter to a constituent on Syria / ISIS
Just over a year ago I published on this blog (with his permission) a letter from Tom Tugendhat to a local resident who had written to express concern that he supported Same Sex Marriage. See HERE. I...
View ArticleTime to prune the dead branches
Have you hard the story about the local Conservative Association branch...You know the one.The branch that hasn't held a meeting for three years,or a properly constituted AGM for even longer.The one...
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Lord Trimble comes to West Kent
Great excitement at West Kent Towers when Lord (David) Trimble accepted our invitation to tell his life story at our third 'An Audience With....'These events really are very popular. Thus far we have...
View Article#ToriesForCorbyn should be careful what they wish for
Unlike many of today's activists and social media commentators I recall the political battles with the hard left in the 1980s when Militant Tendency were ascendant. By "hard left" I don't mean the...
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Kent Area Considers Party Reforms
Kent Area Management Executive (of which I am an elected member) organised a seminar on Saturday 25 July 2015 to allow local Associations an opportunity to contribute to county's submission to Lord...
View ArticleIt's not about me - it's about us...
I tend to take a somewhat sanguine view of what candidates like to refer to as their 'personal vote'. I am not saying personal votes don't exist, but in the overwhelming majority of seats (local and...
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West Kent at its best!
A great team of 13 volunteers came from across West Kent today to pack 7,000 envelopes for Matt Boughton's by-election. They all came at two days notice supporting a neighbouring Association. Exactly...
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And the winner is...
Tunbridge Wells MP and Minister for Communities and Local Government, Greg Clark, was the 'star turn' at West Kent Towers today, when he picked the winners of the 2015 West Kent Summer Raffle.Our local...
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We're backing Boughton #Matt4Fant
Matt Boughton is one of the nicest. hardest working and thoroughly decent people in local politics, and his many years of hard work on behalf of others was reciprocated on Saturday when 30 activists...
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Boughton hits the airwaves
Great to see Matt Boughton accepting an opportunity to speak on local radio tonight about his love of football and how sport can enhance communities and help build confidence, discipline and teamwork...
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A busy day at West Kent Towers
With two local government by-elections to fight (one in Maidstone and the other in Tunbridge Wells) any hopes of a quiet August have gone out of thee window at West Kent Towers. Today we had an...
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A strange encounter in Burford High Street
Apologies for light blogging. I am taking advantage of August to have a long weekend away on our canal boat and we are happily making our way from Oxford to Cropredy in no great hurry, handicapped in...
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Narrow vision over narrow waterways
Britain's inland waterways remain one of our hidden gems. Most people know, or have visited, a canal - but few appreciate their size and scale. It is a network which runs from Godalming in Surrey to...
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Matt Boughton on the Wireless
For the few of you who don't have your wireless tuned to Maidstone United Football Club's radio station 'Stones Live', here is a link so that you may 'listen again' to our very own Matt Boughton...
View ArticleCaughtOut by LinkedIn!
I am regularly amused when I read the LinkedIn profiles of people I know, and see what powerful and influential jobs they have. In recent weeks I think I have seen at least 22 people who claim to have...
View ArticleOCD Agent Alert!
I wish I could deny it... but he's right.I am not saying my agent is obsessive, but he's just emailed a photo of the type of pen/ ink colour I should use for signing pledge letters!— Matt Boughton...
View ArticleLeft, left.... left left left
Almost 30 years ago Michael Heseltine reflected on the leftward lurch of Labour Party. His words are as amusing and true today as they were in Blackpool in 1976.'A one-legged army limping awayfrom the...
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Beans Means MPs
Several years ago the winner of the "stupid things to ask your parliamentarian to do" award was the man from Snodland who phoned up wanting Tracey Crouch to fix his leaking toilet..."well, MPs fix...
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Sponge Bob Square Pants to the rescue
Most MPs turn up at village fetes and events to support the community and to be seen. In Chatham & Aylesford the MP takes it a stage further. When the village of Wouldham advertised on its Facebook...
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Rehabilitation not retribution
Last year my brand new bicycle, which I had been riding for just two or three weeks, was stolen from Strood railway station. Much to my surprise British Transport Police took the matter seriously. My...
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