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No more Standards Board?

Written by Matt B · first published 25/05/2010

It looks like the new government will drop the much talked about Standards Board in order to save money. What do you think about this?

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Election day blues.

Written by Matt B · first published 07/05/2010

Tony Flaig quite rightly points to the dogs dinner that has been made of the voting this year and compares us to a Banana republic.

With a growing number of voters reporting that they were unable to cast votes and stories of people queueing for over two and a half hours surely we are going to see calls for seats to be re-contested and strongly so in light of the now unlikely ability of any party to form a majority.

Compare the over crowding to the fact that I did not see another voter when I voted today and all one can ask is - will this ballot of the people even be allowed to stand? Is a re-election this year now a sure thing?

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Am I the only one that voted?

Written by Matt B · first published 06/05/2010

Am I the only one in North Thanet that voted?

I know, of course, that I can not be the only one that cast a vote. Even with our really poor turnout record a turn out of one voter would still be exceptional. However one could be forgiven for thinking that no one else has bothered. I popped out to vote just after lunch and I saw exactly no one at all.

Have we all just given up like Michael Britton and resigned ourselves to the fact that Mr Gale will continue to be MP?

What are the conservatives hiding?

Written by Matt B · first published 04/05/2010

Can any one tell me why the Conservatives are the only party to more or less refuse to take part in the 2010 poll of candidate's opinions?

While I did not expect Captain Give-up-before-I start of the Labour party to take part I would have thought Mr Gale might have had the guts to tell us what he thinks. (Michael Britton is probably off to sunnier parts of the world anyway... oh no wait that's conservatives too)

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Apparently 6% of Tory candidates have given answers to the online poll. So what are they hiding?

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