yes it was the local slot, there is concern over the planned changes to business rates whereby all money collected locally will now be spent locally.
this lady was very concerned at the impact making the point that somewhere like ashford that was booming would be even more successful whilst east kent would suffer.
then we had our own red gordon pointing out that pfizer's were all but gone together with the large business rate they have been paying.
we then saw a collection of photos of empty properties in the thanet area and it did not need much thinking to see that the situation there could only get worse under the plans.
we then had the member for folkestone and hythe wittering on about there being other money available for run down areas but had nothing concrete on it.
