The difference we make...
The show’s not over till the fat lady sings. Over the next 11 days the majority of readers of this column will be fighting like tigers to Get Out The Vote on behalf of their local Conservative...
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Teamwork...
This evening we have Cllrs Thelma Huggett and Bev Palmer (from Tunbridge Wells), Cllr Stuart MacGregor (from Edenbridge), County Councillor John Davis (From Tunbridge Wells), Cllr Nicolas Heslop...
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New technology helping us to Get Out The Vote
Across West Kent candidates in our target wards have just completed delivery of their target voter leaflets. We have done targeted deliveries for many years now, but this year we have tried something...
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D Day in West Kent - Live Blog
A short video of our wonderful West Kent GOTV Team in action. 12.30pm - Now at capacity and making 400 - 500 calls per hour.10.15am - Greg Clark MP for Tunbridge Wells and Secretary of State for...
View ArticleLocal Government Selections
If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always gotUntil we widen and deepen the pool of talent in which we fish for our Local Government Candidates, we will continue to put...
View ArticleAn audience with Jacob Rees-Mogg MP
I am delighted that Jacob Rees-Mogg MP has agreed to appear at the fifth of our popular series called "An Audience with...."Jacob will be coming to Kent on Friday 8 July 2016 and will be interviewed on...
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2016 Summer Draw
For those who follow and take an interest in what we do, I am pleased to attach copies of our 2016 Summer Raffle Appeal Letter. Last year after a great deal of consideration, we "opted out" of the...
View ArticleMaggie - the memories linger on
Some readers will know that my partner is a Funeral Officiant.This morning I was listening to him dictate a "eulogy" and heard a reference to Margaret Thatcher. After he finished, I asked him about it,...
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With friends like these
Many readers will know that I am on enforced bed rest at home, convalescing from a routine hernia operation last Saturday. Bored witless, unable to walk any distance and barred from driving, I am...
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SECEN has Questions to answer....
It will come as no surprise to regular readers that I am firmly on the side of Brexit. However, I am also professional and completely endorse the Conservative Party's official neutrality on this issue....
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Conservatives in Northern Ireland - squaring the circle 27 years later!
I often think how strange it is that a chance encounter can shape your life, change your views, or take you off along a road which would never have been travelled had that chance meeting not taken...
View ArticleIt's time for radical reform of Local Government
Last year I took a call from a resident in one of West Kent’s rural parishes. The resident was in despair. The street lamp directly outside her bedroom window had been flickering on and off for three...
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This email warmed the cockles of my heart
It's not often an email from a Remain supporter cheers me up, but this one did (for all the reasons it was not meant to). Obviously being 'officially neutral' I was unable to assist - though I did...
View ArticleFloating Voters
Not my usual topic or style, but after nine days holiday and in the midst of this brutal referendum campaign, I was keen to write something gentle.FLOATING VOTERSWhen I launched my blog four years ago...
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West Kent's ever popular Afternoon Tea at #CPC16 Birmingham
All members and friends of West Kent Conservatives are warmly invited to attend our hugely popular Afternoon Tea at Conservative Party Conference, Birmingham.This will be held from 4pm - 6pm on Monday...
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You know you are at a Tory Coffee Morning when....
You know you are at a Tory Party Coffee Morning when one of the raffle prizes is a Free Hearing Check-up! And the guests are all hoping to win it.
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Normality in the fog of war
It may be difficult for many outside observers to believe, but even in this "fog of war" the day-to-day life of local Conservative Associations and grassroots politics continues as before.This week the...
View ArticleIf you repeat a lie often enough people will eventually start to believe it
It was a pleasantly warm autumn day in 2012, and life pootled on at the West Kent Campaign Centre . I was replying to email, and our office manager, Jon Botten, was opening the morning’s post. A sudden...
View ArticleDignity in defeat
At around 11.00pm on Thursday evening, before Newcastle and Sunderland changed despair into hope, David Dimbleby was interviewing Iain Duncan-Smith on the BBCs Referendum Night programme. Dimbleby...
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