Reh Chishti’s Christmas Party

Yesterday (Saturday 16th December), I went to a Christmas Party hosted by Cllr Rehman Chishti at the Hessenthaler Suite, Priestfield.

I feel as though it must have cost poor Reh a fortune for hiring out the suite for the evening, as well as the food and drinks he paid Priestfield for, however it was a very worthwhile experience.

Reh is a very promising Politician, one who, as was shown during his short speech last night, chooses to focus on important issues that affect people’s lives, rather than our current MP, who seems to spend more time focusing on how well the Government is supposedly doing.

Reh mentioned in his speech about crime, and the Government’s lax attitude to those who perpetrate it, and tuition fees, a nasty Government add-on which effectively destroys the Labour Party’s ideology of all people being equal, where secondary school selection is scrapped, everyone is given the same chances in life and Ministers’ children are being sent to Private Schools on their £60,000 per year basic salary.

But I digress. Reh made a valuable point in his speech about my present MP Paul Clark (who only won by 254 votes in 2005) and his tendency to bore people. It is true that, at a recent Year 13′s Politics Conference in which Paul Clark, Reh and a representative from the Liberal Democrats were debating, Paul Clark was the only one of the three not to receive applause from the audience. It would seem that they don’t share your view on the Government’s successes then, Paul?

Although I’m not about the jump around and sing the praises of the Conservative Medway Council. They have done a lot of good for the local area, but they have also nigh-on destroyed Chatham with a new two-way system and made a mockery out of themselves with the new “Super Police Station” down by the Docks, due to open in February 2006 (finally opened in December).

Next May, we have our local elections, and I have said that I will help Reh out when he is fighting for his place on the council (as long as it doesn’t interfere with my school work, as he reminded me in front of Rodney Chambers, leader of the Council). After that, I see Reh as a great contender to fight the Gillingham (sorry, Gillingham and Rainham) Constituency at the next election, being one of our A-listers.

As David Cameron said, we have a lot of key target seats in Kent, and Reh is someone who can contest them.

And win.