I have now finished adding the list of candidates to this blog, although it wasn’t as quickly as I had hoped.
Medway published the list at about 4.45pm, which gave me just about enough time to print off and read through the names before eating then going out canvassing Rainham Central with Reh. I returned at [...]
Today is the day that the statement of persons nominated to stand in the ever-closer local council elections is published. In fact, there is now less than 40 minutes before the noon deadline.
This morning, I looked on Medway Council’s website to see if they had published or if they were hanging out until the deadline. [...]
The Medway Messenger reported today that Brigita Amey is the new Chairman of the Gillingham & Rainham Conservatives Association. However, it failed to mention that John Amey and Reh Chishti were elected as her Deputies.
I shall update my page on Reh Chishti after the local elections, for obvious reasons, but I think that, together, they [...]
“Tell me, Alan,” Reh said to me after another evening delivering leaflets, “what do you think the public’s response would be if the Council re-opened the flyover and gave £50,000 to the Sunlight Centre?” Obviously, I immediately saw scenes of jubilation eminating from campaigners who have worked hard to see this happen, before coming to [...]
To Mrs Collinson the message from Mrs Amey in today’s Medway Messenger was simple: “you were wrong, now have the courage to admit it!”
Mrs Amey, who my source outside the party has confirmed to me is the same Brigita Amey announced elsewhere in the paper as the new Chairman of the Gillingham Tories, was referring [...]