This is the last comment I shall make on the John Ward saga – besides looking forward to continuing to working with him in the advancement of the Conservative cause in Medway in future years.
I said from the outset that the issue was not career-threatening, based on personal experience in a similar matter, and blow [...]
John Ward, former Conservative Councillor for Rochester South & Horsted Ward on Medway Council, has resigned following controversial comments on his personal weblog.
Although it was not his original intention, John Ward has said that “in today’s Soviet-style Britain, with all the pressures coming down upon us from on high and with yet more to come [...]
I read with great interest the (rather one-sided) article printed in today’s Medway Messenger stemming from an article published on Councillor John Ward’s personal weblog. What you’ll probably never see in the Messenger, or indeed any of the local papers poised to attack this week, however, is Councillor John Ward’s defence, quoted from his sterling [...]
Medway Council voted unanimously to confer the “honorary freedom of the borough” on the Royal Engineers, at a special meeting last Thursday.
The freedom of the borough is the highest honour a Council can give and all but two of the 55 Medway Councillors were present and voted for the motion, which read:
In pursuance of [...]
January 24, 2008 | Posted in
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By Councillor John Ward
This is a tricky issue for those of us who genuinely want to find out what people’s wishes are, their opinions, and (around election times in particular) their voting intentions if they are prepared to disclose this. Incidentally, that last is actually quite useful as far as the one questioned is [...]
January 9, 2008 | Posted in
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